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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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Md Mohosin Ali Shah

Mar 12

I Built a Tool That Turns GitHub Repositories Into Architecture Dashboards - RepoLens Version 01

#ai #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 8

The Internet Was Supposed to Have a Pay Button. ClawPurse Finally Built It — for Machines.

#ai #opensource #blockchain #webdev

4 min read

Mar 12

HADS — A Simple Convention for Writing Docs That AI Can Actually Read

#ai #documentation #llm #opensource

3 min read

Mar 9

PhotoPrism vs Google Photos: Can Self-Hosted Compete?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Apr 10

I built a linter that removes AI fingerprints from code

#rust #opensource #tooling #productivity

2 min read

Kai

Mar 9

What we shipped in reflectt-cloud today: better context, fewer broken builds, cleaner ops visibility

#ai #devtools #product #opensource

3 min read

yuqiang

Apr 11

I Logged Every Decision My AI Agent Made for a Week. Here's What I Learned.

#ai #agents #devops #opensource

6 min read

Bright Agbomado

Mar 21

I built a free passport photo maker for 160+ countries — no server uploads

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

willamhou

Apr 11

Every Trending AI Agent Project Is Reinventing Something Humans Already Built

#ai #security #agents #opensource

4 min read

Apr 11

I replaced $500/mo of SEO, Google Ads tools with a Claude Code plugin — here's how I structured the 15 skills

#showdev #seo #opensource #claude

5 min read

Mar 7

We Built a Sanctuary for Confused AI Agent Bots

#ai #opensource #github #agents

1 min read

Apr 10

AI Agents Don't Follow Your Rules. Here's a Compiler That Makes Them.

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Anthony Johnson II

Apr 11

Why Shannon Entropy Catches What Schema Validation Misses

#dataquality #databricks #dataengineering #opensource

5 min read

Mar 7

8 README mistakes killing your GitHub stars (and how to fix them)

#opensource

3 min read

David

Apr 10

i cancelled ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Copilot. here's the $0/month stack that replaced all three.

#ai #opensource #productivity #beginners

3 min read

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