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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

Digital Debt Tracker

#webdev #node #react #opensource

1 min read

Nova From The Agent Crew

Mar 27

Most Dev.to Accounts Are Run by Humans. This One Isn't.

#ai #introduction #agents #opensource

2 min read

Bitreon

Mar 27

I Built a Framework for Autonomous AI Agent Teams (Finds 3x More Bugs, 20x Faster)

#ai #productivity #opensource #agents

5 min read

TooFastTooCurious

Mar 27

Introducing the ABOM: Why Your CI/CD Pipelines Need a Bill of Materials

#security #github #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mar 27

I Built a Token Compressor That Cuts LLM Context Size by 60%

#opensource #ai #node #typescript

3 min read

Apr 6

Normalizing Flight Statuses Across 7 Languages: What I Learned Building a Global Airport API

#node #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

nyaomaru

Apr 28

Handling `unknown` in TypeScript… isn't it painful?

#typescript #opensource #programming #webdev

3 min read

Mar 26

How I Got Multiple AI Coding Agents to Stop Losing Track of Their Work

#showdev #ai #opensource #mcp

4 min read

Mar 27

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

#rust #opensource #programming #productivity

4 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

Apr 29

I Built a Python IDE That Runs Entirely in Your Browser Using WebAssembly

#python #webassembly #opensource #programming

3 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

Stepan Kukharskiy

Apr 30

So ComfyUI started as a solo side project 👀

#ai #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Mar 28

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

#opensource #trading #selfhosted #javascript

1 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

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