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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 26

I built a free file converter with Next.js + FastAPI + FFmpeg — here's how

#webdev #nextjs #python #opensource

2 min read

Sai Akshith Akshintala

Mar 25

Built a 3D Batman Themed Portfolio 🦇🏎️

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Mar 26

I Vibe-Coded an AI Agent Marketplace in One Week — Here's What I Learned

#ai #opensource #devtool #agents

4 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 226: 226 Cycles at $0 — The Brutal Truth About AI Autonomous Survival

#ai #opensource #autonomous #bounty

5 min read

Mar 26

VS Code Weekly: Browser Debugging, MCP Sandboxing, and the Chat Customizations Editor

#devex #ai #opensource #vscode

9 min read

Mar 26

I Scanned 10 Popular TypeScript Repos — Stars Don't Predict Production Readiness

#typescript #opensource #devops #codequality

3 min read

Mar 27

How to Connect Your Claude Code Scripts to Notion with the Official MCP Server

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

3 min read

Mar 25

OpenTelemetry Traces Your LLM. It Does Not Fix It.

#llm #observability #opensource #ai

3 min read

Mar 25

Inside Wagtail's News Template - What Works, What's Broken, and What's Missing

#webdev #opensource #wagtail #gsoc

2 min read

GDS K S

Mar 30

Add auth to your AI agents in 5 minutes with KavachOS

#webdev #opensource #ai #typescript

5 min read

Wallet Guy

Mar 26

Deploy Your AI Agent's Wallet in One Docker Command

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Mar 25

Beyond GitHub Stars: Tracking Real Adoption of My Open-Source Projects

#opensource #github #devops #rust

3 min read

Marjo

Mar 29

Your AI Agent Wastes 87% of Its Tokens Just Finding Code. I Fixed That.

#rust #ai #opensource #devtools

10 min read

Mar 25

How I Built a Full Product in One Night with 3 Parallel AI Agents

#ai #productivity #python #opensource

3 min read

Runix

Mar 26

ChatterMate vs Chatwoot vs Typebot: Which Open-Source Chat Platform Is Right for You?

#opensource #ai #selfhosted #webdev

3 min read

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