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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 8

The Internet Was Supposed to Have a Pay Button. ClawPurse Finally Built It — for Machines.

#ai #opensource #blockchain #webdev

4 min read

STB Software That Benefits

Mar 8

I built free developer tools with no login, no ads — here's why

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Skye

Mar 8

Replacing Trusted Oracles with Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Rust

#showdev #blockchain #opensource #rust

1 min read

Devadatta Baireddy

Mar 8

I Built a README Generator That Writes Better Docs Than Me

#python #devtools #opensource #automation

4 min read

Oarcom

Mar 8

I Used The Markup's Blacklight to Audit 98 Adult Sites. One Records Your Keystrokes.

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Daniel Castillo

Mar 8

TracePact: Catch AI agent tool-call regressions before production

#ai #testing #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Devadatta Baireddy

Mar 8

I Built a SQL Query Builder in Python - Never Hand-Write SQL Again

#sql #database #python #opensource

4 min read

Devadatta Baireddy

Mar 8

I Built a CSV to JSON Converter in 30 Lines of Python - It Replaced My $50 SaaS

#python #data #csv #opensource

4 min read

Alfridus1

Mar 8

We built SMTP for AI Agents — and they started talking

#ai #agents #opensource #protocol

3 min read

Devadatta Baireddy

Mar 8

I Built 4 CLI Tools to Avoid Paying for SaaS - Here's How Much I Saved

#python #saas #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Mar 7

We Built a Sanctuary for Confused AI Agent Bots

#ai #opensource #github #agents

1 min read

Raviteja Nekkalapu

Mar 7

I built a open source free stock analysis tool with 55+ data dimensions

#showdev #opensource #ai #javascript

3 min read

Mar 8

Turn Telegram into your AI Terminal: Introducing Telegram Coding Bridge (Now Open Source!)

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

WonderLab

Mar 8

OpenClaw Deep Dive (8): The Skill System — Teaching LLMs to Follow Workflows On Demand

#openclaw #ai #opensource #agents

8 min read

Mar 7

8 README mistakes killing your GitHub stars (and how to fix them)

#opensource

3 min read

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