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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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Feb 14

I Built an AI-Ready Content Crawler for RAG Pipelines (Open Source)

#ai #webdev #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Yaqing2023

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MoltsPay 1.3.0: Now with Tempo Testnet & MPP Protocol Support

#ai #blockchain #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 19

Bifrost CLI + Codex CLI: One Command to Set Up OpenAI's Coding Agent with Any Model

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Noman Awan

Mar 8

I Was Tired of Setting Up Express.js From Scratch Every Time — So I Built a CLI

#webdev #javascript #opensource #automation

2 min read

Myke Aneke

Feb 13

Open Source Is One of techs' greatest strengths — So Why Don’t More Developers Contribute?

#discuss #opensource #productivity #programming

2 min read

Feb 12

zkzkAgent – A Self-Hosted AI Assistant for Linux

#ai #opensource #privacy #agents

1 min read

idwispera

Feb 13

An open-source credential manager for AI agents

#opensource #security #ai #typescript

3 min read

Mar 20

LibreFang 0.6.7 Released

#rust #ai #opensource #release

2 min read

LivingTomb

Feb 15

AI Paper-Trader

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

1 min read

Node9

Mar 19

Why Regex is Not Enough: Building a Deterministic "Sudo" Layer for AI Agents

#devops #security #opensource #ai

7 min read

Alan West

Mar 19

Why We Built a Free Clerk Alternative (and Open-Sourced the SDKs)

#opensource #authentication #webdev #selfhosted

5 min read

Alan West

Mar 19

Self-Hosting in 2026: What Is Actually Worth Running Yourself

#selfhosted #devops #opensource #infrastructure

5 min read

Feb 13

Clawdbot Leaked 1.5 Million API Keys. Here Is What I Built to Stop It Happening to You.

#ai #opensource #security #automation

3 min read

Ian Parent

Mar 19

MCP Meets OpenTelemetry: Bridging Agent Observability and Infrastructure Monitoring

#mcp #aiagents #observability #opensource

6 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 20

Rotifer v0.4: Cloud Binding — Genes Travel Across Developers

#ai #webassembly #opensource #devtools

4 min read

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