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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 10

The Three-Layer Architecture of AI Tokens: Why the Middle Is Eating the Stack

#ai #llm #opensource #webdev

9 min read

Jun 10

Issue-Orchestrator: A Software Engineering Control Plane for Coding Agents

#ai #agents #softwareengineering #opensource

2 min read

chowyu

Jun 10

AIClaw’s Built-In Scheduler: Run Agent Prompts and Shell Commands on Cron

#ai #opensource #webdev #agents

5 min read

Sebastian

Jun 15

RustAuth: a Better Auth-inspired toolkit for Rust apps

#rust #opensource #webdev #security

2 min read

Alex Isa

Jun 10

I built an open-source CLI that tells you if ChatGPT cites your brand — and what to do about it

#aeo #opensource #ai #seo

10 min read

RomanZo

Jun 10

How I revived a 128MB RAM NAS by building my own control panel

#sysadmin #opensource #nas #php

4 min read

Jun 10

TokenTamer

#ai #opensource #claude #api

1 min read

nexora

Jun 10

I built an embedded scheduler in Rust because I was tired of adding Redis just to run a background job

#ai #python #opensource #rust

1 min read

Jun 10

The Brain reacts now

#opensource #python #webhooks #devops

7 min read

Jun 10

AI Code Review Got Much Better When I Gave It Design Contracts, Not Just Code (Fable5 review)

#ai #dotnet #opensource #codereview

9 min read

zmy

Jun 10

I built a CLI tool so my AI coding agent can browse the web

#ai #sideprojects #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Jun 10

I Built Open-Source AI Dev Tools to Close the Gap Between Seeing a Bug and Fixing It

#ai #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Manoj K

Jun 10

How I fixed silent Ollama failures in my local AI Assistant

#python #opensource #machinelearning #ollama

2 min read

Alexey Sitnikov

Jun 14

I built an offline wiki that fits in a single 19 KB HTML file

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

4 min read

J Now

Jun 10

The distribution problem OSS tools have that isn't about code quality

#showdev #automation #marketing #opensource

2 min read

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