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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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Vilius

May 7

Why would an agent install your package?

#ai #agents #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Shashank Kumar Singh

May 6

How I built a screen-aware AI assistant in Python – full stack breakdown (PyQt6 + Whisper + Ollama)

#showdev #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

SoleyRan

May 3

GoodLog: A Lightweight C++17 Wrapper Around Boost.Log

#cpp #opensource #logging #boost

3 min read

Fernando Tricas García

May 3

So, you want to vibecode another note taking app? (Part 1)

#cli #digitallife #vibecoding #opensource

4 min read

Carter

May 3

I Built a Free Public REST API for Kenya Data Counties, Banks, M-Pesa Paybills and More

#showdev #api #data #opensource

2 min read

Weather Clock Dash

May 3

How I Built a Firefox New Tab Extension with Pure HTML/CSS/JS (No Frameworks)

#firefox #webextensions #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Marcin Parśniak

May 7

Building a Currency Converter in Spring Boot with Feign and NBP API - Finovara

#programming #api #java #opensource

3 min read

Vilius

May 7

Better Prompts Won't Fix Your AI Agents — Infrastructure Will

#ai #python #opensource #sqlite

2 min read

Vilius

May 7

I'm Proposing a Standard for How AI Agents Hand Off Work — Here's Why It's Needed

#discuss #ai #standards #opensource

2 min read

Ranajoy

May 3

Where Did My Claude Code Money Go? I Built a Tool to Find Out

#claude #ai #devtools #opensource

3 min read

kododo

May 7

I built ConfigWay — a runtime config editor for ASP.NET Core (my first open source project)

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #aspnetcore

3 min read

May 3

How to audit AI agents hiding in your organization?

#ai #security #python #opensource

2 min read

Teddy

May 3

Shipped 5 enterprise apps on one homemade agent platform — here's what broke

#ai #opensource #agents #kubernetes

8 min read

Aaron Sood

May 3

I Built a Multi-Agent AI Pen Tester Because AI Coding Tools Are Shipping Vulnerable Code

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

May 3

Why We Need an Open Geocoding Standard for Logistics

#showdev #algorithms #opensource #sideprojects

2 min read

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