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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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Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 5

I Built a CLI to Manage Claude Code Agents — Because Copy-Pasting .md Files Got Old Fast

#ai #python #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Valentin Monteiro

Apr 8

Claude Mythos Finds Bugs Like a Senior Dev Finds Excuses to Skip Standup

#security #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

7 min read

Mar 6

Navidrome vs Jellyfin for Music: Which Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Apr 8

I spent 6 weeks reading all of the Claude-Code docs. Here is what I built.

#claude #ai #opensource #automation

10 min read

Apr 8

Your PC, Your Data, Their Rules - How Big Tech Turned Customers Into Hostages

#opensource #privacy #webassembly #pwa

21 min read

gyorgy

Apr 8

I built a TypeScript framework that generates your entire cloud infrastructure

#typescript #nestjs #devops #opensource

5 min read

Paton Wong

Apr 8

Structured Generation: teaching AI agents to color inside the lines

#ai #agents #opensource #automation

6 min read

Mar 5

Components structure in deerflow codebase - Part 1.1

#opensource #bytedance #codebase #architecture

3 min read

Mar 19

Matomo Vs Posthog

#analytics #opensource #saas #webdev

5 min read

Kunal

Mar 5

The Wikipedia Mass Hack That Never Happened — And Why That's the Real Story

#security #wikipedia #cybersecurity #opensource

6 min read

Mar 6

Navidrome vs Funkwhale: Which Music Server?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Vincent Grobler

Apr 8

We built an embeddable AI chat widget, hybrid RAG search, and agent portability — here's how (CrewForm v1.8.0)

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Apr 8

Stop using LLMs to schedule other LLMs

#opensource #python #ai #agents

4 min read

Himanshu Jangid, हिमांशु जाँगिड़

Mar 9

I built a platform to help developers find open source projects that need contributors

#showdev #beginners #github #opensource

2 min read

Mar 6

We Shipped Our Passwords to npm (And Built a System So It Never Happens Again)

#security #ai #devops #opensource

3 min read

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