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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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Saravanan Jaichandaran

May 21

Five primitives I exercised end-to-end on world-model-mcp's own repo

#ai #opensource #claude #agents

6 min read

May 25

Every App Needs a Recognizable Identity

#discuss #opensource #productivity #debugging

1 min read

Akashi

May 21

Rebuilding the movie-web proxy after it shut down: HLS, headers, and the sandbox-detection trap

#hls #nextjs #opensource #mp4

6 min read

Alex Delov

May 21

Models shouldn't have execution authority. Why we built a deterministic FSM runtime for AI agents.

#architecture #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

Liohtml

May 21

How I Reverse-Engineered a Radiology Portal and Built an Open-Source MRI Analyzer

#python #opensource #machinelearning #healthcare

4 min read

Jack Mr.

May 21

When a General-Purpose Model Solves an Open Math Problem, Pay Attention

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

May 21

Anatomy of a form POST: 9 things that fire before your inbox pings

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

9 min read

devendra tandle

May 21

Ardon-R2: Inspired by R, Built on Rust. An AI-Assisted Project. v0.1.1.

#ai #devops #opensource #programming

8 min read

Wallet Guy

May 21

17 SessionAuth Tools in OpenClaw: Integrate Any AI Framework with Wallet Infrastructure

#ai #opensource #api #web3

5 min read

GaltRanch

May 21

Static Analysis Without Sending Your Code to the Cloud: Building KCode

#security #ai #sast #opensource

8 min read

WonderLab

May 21

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 71): CodeGraph — Pre-Index Your Codebase for AI Agents, Save 35% Cost and 70% Tool Calls

#opensource #claude #mcp #sqlite

9 min read

May 21

Paying the bills in a restricted country with cryptocurrency: the lie that almost killed our digital product

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

2 min read

May 21

I’ve officially elevated the .NET AI Architect Laboratory project to a fully autonomous code analysis engine! 🚀

#ai #opensource #dotnet #angular

1 min read

Soros

May 21

ICECODE — Self-hosted AI Agent Platform: Multi-Agent Swarm, Local RAG, 26-Page Web UI, 34 Platform Gateways

#ai #python #opensource #selfhosted

3 min read

Jenuel Oras Ganawed

May 21

Your VS Code extensions are production access. Treat them that way.

#security #webdev #devtools #opensource

4 min read

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