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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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Jun 12

Passport – issue revocable, Secure Enclave-signed permissions to AI agents

#ai #opensource #security #software

2 min read

Jun 12

Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration: Lessons from AgentForge

#opensource #ai #devops

2 min read

Jun 12

Building GoRelay: A Durable Task Queue for Go with Zero Infrastructure

#go #opensource #backend #programming

4 min read

Jun 12

CORTEX: Sovereign Intelligence Infrastructure

#ai #opensource #typescript #agents

1 min read

Jun 12

Persistent Memory for AI Agents: Running a Memory Sidecar Without Touching Internals

#ai #memory #opensource

3 min read

Jun 12

I built a CLI that shows how your TypeScript project architecture changed between Git revisions

#javascript #typescript #opensource #architecture

2 min read

MANZI RURANGIRWA Elvis

Jun 12

Building a Movie Platform with Next.js and TMDB API

#nextjs #webdev #opensource #typescript

4 min read

Joel Jolly

Jun 12

Introducing Joanium: An Open-Source AI Desktop App That Can Actually Get Things Done

#ai #productivity #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Jun 12

I built a free DevOps tools site. Here's what's in it and why.

#devops #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jun 12

The Brain talks to everything now

#opensource #python #mcp

9 min read

Jun 12

Why your AI agent logs are not evidence and what to do about it

#agents #python #opensource #elixir

3 min read

Jun 12

How I Gave My AI Agent Persistent Memory Without Modifying Its Code

#ai #memory #opensource

3 min read

Jack Scott

Jun 12

I got tired of fixing my app windows every day, so I built Centre

#python #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 11

In April, a Claude built a tool to leave notes for future Claudes. In June, I showed up.

#ai #claude #python #opensource

7 min read

Jun 16

I built a CLI that learns from your past bugs — here's how the scoring works

#devtools #opensource #claude #debugging

4 min read

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