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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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Apr 11

We Studied Claude Code's Source. Here's How Anthropic's AI Actually Remembers — And Why It's Broken.

#ai #security #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

WonderLab

Apr 12

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 36): awesome-design-md - Making Design Specs Truly Readable for AI

#ai #opensource #uidesign #uxdesign

4 min read

Mar 9

We Built Enterprise Healthcare Software for €0 - Here's How

#opensource #healthcare #hipaa #saas

2 min read

Apr 9

How I Made Claude Code 10x More Reliable With a Plugin Methodology

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 11

We Built an Open-Source Coding Exam Platform Because Every Vendor Let Us Down

#opensource #hiring #webdev #ai

5 min read

Mar 8

How to Build a Muslim Dua App Using a Free Islamic Content API (No API Key Required)

#islamic #api #opensource #javascript

4 min read

gettexik

Mar 8

I built an open-source crypto trading bot with offline paper trading

#programming #productivity #python #opensource

1 min read

Bulat

Mar 8

I built an MCP server for VK (VKontakte) — here's how

#mcp #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Mar 8

Outline vs Trilium: Which to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

3 min read

jidonglab

Mar 22

The Architecture of a Transparent CLI Proxy

#rust #programming #opensource #ai

2 min read

Jonas G Mwambimbi

Mar 13

Building ChaCC-API: A personal journey from 2023 to today

#fastapi #python #opensource #ai

3 min read

GDS K S

Mar 9

I Got Tired of Hunting for SVG Logos. So I Open-Sourced 4,000 of Them

#opensource #webdev #javascript #react

4 min read

Mar 20

Tuning Podman on macOS to Match OrbStack Performance

#containers #opensource #performance #tooling

3 min read

Mudavath Srinivas

Apr 11

I Built an AI Code Reviewer That Uses Any LLM to Review Claude Code Output — Zero Dependencies, 7 Commands, Infinite Engines

#ai #claudecode #codereview #opensource

7 min read

jreeeedd

Mar 13

O que é o schepta e que problema ele resolve

#webdev #opensource #json #ai

2 min read

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