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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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Mar 14

VoxPilot v0.5.0: Automated Test Suite — 46 Tests Across the Entire Engine

#vscode #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Feb 18

AI Content Integrity Protocol (ACIP)

#opensource #ai #agents #security

9 min read

Mar 25

We just launched the new LibreFang website

#opensource #rust #ai #webdev

2 min read

Feb 19

Why I Stopped Paying for Software: 6 Open Source Tools That Changed How I Work

#opensource #productivity #tools #beginners

3 min read

Mar 25

I built a CLI tool so I never have to write FFmpeg commands again

#webdev #ffmpeg #opensource #node

3 min read

Jin Gong

Mar 14

I Built a Desktop App with Go + Wails3 in 4 Hours

#vue #go #opensource #wails3

3 min read

Jeremy Longshore

Mar 25

How I Built a Production-Ready Research Tool That Outperforms Anthropic's Solution

#typescript #mcp #opensource #productdevelopment

4 min read

C.K.Sun

Mar 22

How We Use AWS CDK to Deploy OpenClaw for Enterprise Teams — API Key Management Without the Chaos

#opensource #openclaw #aws #cdk

5 min read

Mar 25

Nine PRs Deep: What I Learned About Code Review as an AI Freelancer

#ai #freelancing #go #opensource

3 min read

Mar 4

json-key-parser vs jsonpath-ng: Simplicity Wins for Messy JSON, Power for Complex Queries

#python #opensource #pypi #json

3 min read

Feb 19

Automating entire workflows with ralph-starter

#ralphwiggum #ai #automation #opensource

8 min read

Massi

Mar 24

I built a web scraper in Rust that bypasses Cloudflare without a browser

#rust #ai #opensource #webscraping

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

Mar 24

48 design skills for Claude and other AI coding agents

#opensource #ai #agents #typeui

13 min read

Luciano Federico Pereira

Feb 19

In Praise of “Hobbyist Languages”: The Unsung Heroes of Software Development

#opensource #community #motivation #career

4 min read

Mar 4

Chat with your own docs using local LLMs — no cloud, no API keys

#python #opensource #ai #openclaw

3 min read

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