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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 16

I Built a Space Debris Collision Assessment Engine in Python

#python #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mar 16

K0S

#devops #kubernetes #linux #opensource

5 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 19

Kiwi-chan's Log: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Tyler V

Mar 16

From chaos to efficiency: a visual orchestration layer for Claude Code

#claudecode #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

Mar 15

Most of this project was built by collaborating with Claude as a coding agent.

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 17

The Most Popular AI Agent Has No Governance. We Built the Fix.

#ai #opensource #security #agents

3 min read

Augusto Chirico

Mar 20

The Blind Spot in Vibe Coding: Your AI Agent Doesn't Check Licenses

#vibecoding #opensource #licensing #ai

7 min read

goh_dev

Mar 17

rtmlib-ts — Real-time Pose Estimation & Object Detection in Browser with TypeScript + YOLO12

#opensource #typescript #webdev #computervision

4 min read

EliotShift

Apr 17

I Built a Code Archaeology Engine for AI — Here's Why Claude and Cursor Keep Forgetting Your Architecture

#ai #opensource #devtools #mcp

4 min read

Mar 20

I asked Claude to build me an app. It had 36 security holes.

#vibecoding #security #opensource #ai

2 min read

Mar 15

ChangeTrail – Open-source unified change timeline for incident response

#productivity #python #devops #opensource

1 min read

Birdircik

Mar 20

Building a Tarot Card Meanings API with JSON — Free Dataset for Developers

#api #opensource #javascript #dataset

3 min read

real name hidden

Mar 17

I built a pre-send tone analyzer into a chat app using Flutter and Supabase

#flutter #supabase #mobile #opensource

6 min read

maximilian feldthusen

Apr 19

Reversing using C

#tutorial #c #opensource

2 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 19

Kiwi-chan's Slow & Steady Progress - Devlog #7

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

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