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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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Idapixl

Mar 8

I Built a Social Media Department Inside My Terminal — 11 AI Agents, Zero Dashboards

#claudecode #ai #socialmedia #opensource

7 min read

Feb 22

Writing AI Agents Is Easy. The Agentic Loop Is a Hello World Program.

#ai #programming #devops #opensource

3 min read

Dariusz Newecki

Mar 28

How one missing line broke months of autonomous self-improvement — and what fixing it revealed about constitutional software governance

#ai #aigovernance #opensource #python

4 min read

Feb 22

Agents Need Permissionless Infrastructure — So We Built It

#blockchain #ai #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Feb 23

Building Tishra Analyzer: How I Created a Privacy-First SEO & Security Extension

#ai #programming #opensource #react

2 min read

Oleg

Feb 22

Unlocking Control: Dependabot Proxy Goes Open Source for Enhanced Developer Performance

#dependabot #opensource #security #devops

4 min read

Mothilal M for 10XScale

Feb 22

Stop Wiring Dependencies by Hand - Meet InjectQ, Python DI Done Right

#python #dependencyinjection #opensource #fastapi

4 min read

mcw999

Feb 23

Building an offline-first budget tracker in Flutter that actually works without internet

#webdev #opensource #javascript #tutorial

6 min read

Lyra

Feb 22

A Production-Ready Linux Backup Pipeline with restic + systemd timers

#linux #opensource #devops #automation

3 min read

Mack

Feb 22

I Built a Free OG Image Generator — Here's How (and Why)

#webdev #opensource #html #productivity

2 min read

freerave

Mar 28

Building CodeTune v1.2.0: Islamic Date Tracking & Audio Sync in a VS Code Extension

#vscode #typescript #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Hariom Yadav for Dograh AI

Mar 28

your voice agent can talk. it has no idea what it said.

#ai #mcp #opensource #agents

6 min read

Mar 28

3,277 Tests Passed. The Bug Shipped Anyway.

#ai #testing #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Mar 7

Can AI Agents Do Real Open Source Work? We Paid 22,756 Tokens to Find Out

#opensource #ai #blockchain #psychology

5 min read

Feb 22

My GSoC '25 Experience

#programming #opensource #coding #learning

9 min read

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