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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Mar 27

Why I Built a Desktop Cat to Keep Me Company While Coding (with Rust + Tauri)

#rust #opensource #programming #productivity

4 min read

anoop p

Mar 31

What I Shipped This Month Building Invoiso (v3.4.2)

#showdev #opensource #buildinpublic #productivity

3 min read

YiYaoAI

Mar 27

I Built a Dashboard That Installs Claude Code, Codex & Gemini CLI in One Click

#ai #opensource #tooling #productivity

3 min read

XIAOXU CHANG for ByteDance Open Source

Mar 27

Introducing AIO Sandbox, All-in-One Sandbox Environment for AI Agents

#agents #ai #opensource #security

2 min read

Joey Lee

Mar 31

We Built an Open-Source OpenClaw Desktop Client That Fixes 17 Pitfalls

#showdev #opensource #openclaw #javascript

3 min read

Livrädo Sandoval

Mar 31

Your GitHub history is being used against you

#github #privacy #opensource #career

3 min read

Justin

Mar 28

The AI Pair Programmer: Why the Human Loop Is About Partnership, Not Review

#ai #opensource #agile #programming

13 min read

Wallet Guy

Mar 27

Add DeFi Superpowers to Claude with MCP Skills

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Mar 27

Your AI Agents Are Running Unsupervised

#ai #python #security #opensource

2 min read

An Pham

Mar 29

Your AI agent can't fetch behind logins. I built a <400kb fix in Zig.

#zig #opensource #cli #ai

2 min read

Mar 28

I Built an Open-Source Alternative to $500/Year Trading Signal Tools

#opensource #trading #selfhosted #javascript

1 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 28

I Built a Pregnancy Herb Safety Checker Because LactMed Ignores Andean Plants

#health #data #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 28

Yerba Mate Caffeine: I Analyzed 47 Studies to Build a Calculator That Actually Works

#health #data #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Mar 27

From Apache SeaTunnel to ASF Member: A Story of Long-Term Commitment

#apacheseatunnel #asf #opensource #ai

7 min read

Mar 28

Top 5 LLM Gateway Alternatives After the LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack

#opensource #ai #python #programming

6 min read

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