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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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Boti

Feb 15

I built an open-source Solana trading bot on Telegram — here's what I learned

#blockchain #web3 #opensource #javascript

2 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 7

Do AI Dreams Consolidate Memory?

#ai #opensource #agents

1 min read

Feb 14

Opik: Your Agent's Black Box Flight Recorder

#agents #llm #opensource #testing

5 min read

Mar 8

Review: Codex for Open Source Practical Assessment for WordPress/Drupal Maintainers

#review #codex #opensource #wordpress

3 min read

Ramasankar Molleti

Mar 8

I Built an AI-Powered Infrastructure Observability Agent from Scratch

#go #kubernetes #devops #opensource

7 min read

Ingo Steinke, web developer

Mar 2

Using Slightly Broken Smartphones thanks to Accessibility

#ai #android #mobile #opensource

10 min read

WonderLab

Mar 8

OpenClaw Deep Dive (8): The Skill System — Teaching LLMs to Follow Workflows On Demand

#openclaw #ai #opensource #agents

8 min read

Feb 2

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Oarcom

Mar 8

I Used The Markup's Blacklight to Audit 98 Adult Sites. One Records Your Keystrokes.

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Hcan

Mar 7

Vibe Coding Will Make You Feel Like a God. Then It Won’t.

#ai #flutter #programming #opensource

4 min read

Nytrox

Mar 5

I built a Python library to make TCP networking as simple as Fastapi

#python #opensource #networking

2 min read

Muhammad Arslan

Mar 7

A Durable Execution Graph Engine for Node.js

#showdev #javascript #node #opensource

8 min read

Alfridus1

Mar 8

We built SMTP for AI Agents — and they started talking

#ai #agents #opensource #protocol

3 min read

Boucle

Mar 7

How to See Everything Claude Code Does (Audit Trail Hook)

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Feb 6

Pre-Execution Governance for AI Agents: Why Your MCP Server Needs a Gatekeeper

#mcp #ai #opensource #governance

6 min read

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