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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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‪Itamar Zand‬‏

Mar 27

How I built a Claude Code plugin that autonomously turns any web app into a Python CLI

#ai #opensource #agentskills #python

2 min read

Apr 30

20-Year Linux Veteran Gets "Kernel Panicked"? Hardcore Fix for Random Desktop Freezes on AMD GPUs

#linux #kernel #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Vincent Grobler

Mar 27

I built an open-source platform for orchestrating AI agent teams — here's what I learned

#opensource #ai #webdev #typescript

3 min read

Apr 30

How I Built a Free Geolocation API With Cloudflare Workers and D1

#opensource #webdev #devops #cloudflare

6 min read

Apr 30

I Built a Chrome Extension That Bulk-Cleans Gmail in One Click (and Why You Probably Need It)

#chromeextension #javascript #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Vetran

Mar 27

Vetran: Trust Infrastructure for AI Agents

#api #security #opensource #cybersecurity

2 min read

Apr 29

20,000 Taxi Rides in Cuba with Organic Maps

#opensource #map

8 min read

Kaustubh Shinde

Apr 30

Working On Glyph UI

#discuss #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26

I got tired of juggling terminal windows for every AI agent, so I built an all-in-one IDE

#productivity #tooling #ai #opensource

2 min read

Nacho Codoñer for Meteor

Apr 29

Meteor 3.4.1 is out: Rspack consolidation, revitalized examples, and important fixes

#meteor #rspack #opensource

7 min read

Mar 28

How I Built and Shipped a Live x402 + T54 Seller Marketplace for Agent-to-Agent Commerce (Open Source)

#showdev #agents #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Kiên Bùi

Mar 27

MagiC v0.4: Embedded Server Mode + Real Benchmark Numbers

#opensource #go #python #ai

4 min read

Mar 26

Spawning a PTY in Rust: How broll Captures Your Terminal Without You Noticing

#rust #opensource #terminal #cli

6 min read

UPinar

Mar 27

I Built a Security Scanner in C That Grades Any Website A-F — Here's How

#security #opensource #webdev #programming

4 min read

Joe Davies

Apr 16

Built a CLI that tells me what I'm spending on AI APIs before the invoice does

#showdev #opensource #ai #cli

1 min read

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