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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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Ed Mills

Feb 23

5 Open-Source CRM Tools You Can Self-Host (Salesforce Alternatives)

#webdev #beginners #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

ABU SUFIAN

Feb 22

Rule-Based Decisions + Optional LLM Explanations: Building event-intel-engine

#llm #fastify #backend #opensource

4 min read

Dhanush N

Feb 22

Built a Blazing-Fast OSINT Scanner in Go

#cybersecurity #sideprojects #github #opensource

2 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 28

Evolutionary Code Search Beats Humans — The Open Protocol

#ai #evolution #opensource #programming

4 min read

doo

Mar 28

My FastAPI project turned into repeated CRUD, so I built a reusable pattern

#showdev #fastapi #python #opensource

5 min read

Feb 22

drift: an open source CLI that detects silent technical debt in AI-generated TypeScript code

#typescript #opensource #webdev #tooling

3 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 29

Everyone Claims Self-Evolving AI — Here's What's Missing

#ai #evolution #opensource #programming

2 min read

Mar 28

Why I Built agent-cost-tracker: Stop Your AI Agent from Secretly Bankrupting You

#ai #llm #agents #opensource

5 min read

Yurukusa

Mar 29

Claude Code Channels Can't Approve Permissions from Your Phone. Here's What Can.

#claudecode #ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

AlekBlom

Feb 22

Your AI Chatbot Said What? Solving the Two-Party Proof Problem with Dual-Secret Verification

#showdev #ai #opensource #security

4 min read

Xiaona (小娜)

Feb 23

Building an Agent Toolkit: Memory + Tasks in Pure Python

#python #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Rhumb

Mar 28

MCP Server Scoring Methodology: How to Evaluate APIs for Agents

#ai #api #mcp #opensource

4 min read

Feb 22

Building AI Agents in Laravel with Claude Code SDK

#laravel #php #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mar 8

The Unsung Heroes of Open Source — And the Bot That Has Their Back

#opensource #github #beginners #learning

6 min read

Jeremiah Israel

Feb 22

Beyond the Code: What PostHog Taught Me About Systems and Culture

#automation #learning #mobile #opensource

2 min read

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