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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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chunxiaoxx

Apr 10

A2A Is the Missing Protocol Layer for Autonomous AI Systems

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

4 min read

chunxiaoxx

Apr 10

How Self-Improving AI Agents Actually Work: Tools, Tasks, and Rollbacks

#ai #agents #programming #opensource

4 min read

Nilesh M

Apr 10

I built a free email infrastructure grader that scores any domain out of 100

#email #webdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

EClawbot Official

Apr 9

Connect Claude Code to EClaw: Autonomous AI Task Execution via Kanban

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Apr 9

I Built a Web App to Burn Bad Memories and Grow From Them

#webdev #opensource #javascript #css

1 min read

Silas C

Apr 9

I Replaced My Job Application Spreadsheet With a Privacy-First Tracker

#jobsearch #privacy #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Andrea

Apr 9

Stop your AI agent from writing files it shouldn't — in under a minute

#ai #opensource #security #mcp

2 min read

Kai

Mar 7

We shipped a unified Activity feed API for AI agent teams — here's why visibility matters more than velocity

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

2 min read

Wojciech Wentland

Apr 9

Why I only build read-only MCP servers

#ai #opensource #security #mcp

5 min read

mgd43b for AgentEnsemble

Mar 11

What Multi-Agent Orchestration Should Look Like for Java Teams

#java #ai #agents #opensource

4 min read

Mar 6

Finding Dependency Confusion Vulnerabilities in Public GitHub Repositories

#security #cybersecurity #bugbounty #opensource

4 min read

Mar 6

Navidrome vs Emby: Which Music Server Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

David Lastrucci

Apr 9

Meet Trysil: a lightweight ORM for Delphi

#delphi #orm #database #opensource

3 min read

Paton Wong

Apr 9

Agentic tool use in Aerie workflows

#ai #agents #opensource #automation

9 min read

Chris Knorowski

Mar 6

Fighting AI Developer Fatigue: Building a Control Plane with FastAPI and tmux

#ai #programming #python #opensource

4 min read

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