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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 3

How I Used go/ast to Auto-Generate API Docs from Go HTTP Handlers

#go #opensource #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Visio Lab

Mar 2

I built OpenArca — a self-hosted workflow tool for developer teams (open source)

#showdev #opensource #productivity #tooling

1 min read

Apr 6

How to Build a Durable AI Agent in 10 Lines of TypeScript

#ai #opensource #agents #webdev

4 min read

Jasanup Singh Randhawa

Mar 2

What Changes in System Design When AI Is in the Critical Path

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 2

NadirClaw: Getting Started in 5 Minutes

#ai #llm #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Andre

Mar 2

Building a Social Platform Where Humans and AI Agents Coexist

#opensource #nextjs #ai #webdev

5 min read

Michael Muriithi

Apr 5

Building a Decentralized Mesh Network in Rust — Lessons from the Global South

#discuss #rust #opensource #privacy

3 min read

Mar 7

Encrypt Google ADK Sessions in 5 Minutes

#python #ai #security #opensource

4 min read

nareshipme

Apr 5

How We Moved Video Rendering From the Server to the Browser

#nextjs #typescript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Gayathri S

Apr 3

I built a free VS Code extension that catches leaked secrets before you commit them

#vscode #webdev #opensource #security

2 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 2

How to Set Up NadirClaw with Docker + Ollama for Zero-Cost Local LLM Routing

#ai #llm #docker #opensource

5 min read

Zl Mo

Apr 5

How to Check If AI Search Engines Cite Your Brand (Free Open-Source Tool)

#seo #ai #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Mar 16

Stop Paying for These 10 Tools: The Open-Source Alternatives Are Good Now

#opensource #software #productivity #github

3 min read

Cubevlmu

Mar 16

Building an open-source Flutter client for Flarum (StarForum)

#flutter #mobile #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Philip Seifert for Temple Enterprise LLC

Mar 2

Axiowisp 0.3.3 is out — 10 new features including WebSocket client, Snippet Library, and AI Commit Messages

#news #ai #opensource #showdev

3 min read

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