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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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Anastasiia Chestnykh

Mar 16

I found out EMDR apps charge $80/month for a CSS animation. So I built a free one with eye tracking.

#opensource #webdev #react #javascript

3 min read

Mar 17

How We Added Cryptographic Message Signing to OpenClaw's MCP Transport

#security #mcp #ai #opensource

3 min read

אחיה כהן

Mar 17

How to Build a WhatsApp AI Customer Service Bot with n8n (No Code, Free & Open Source)

#discuss #ai #automation #opensource

4 min read

Liel Cohen

Mar 17

I got tired of babysitting Claude Code, so I built an open-source orchestrator that runs a full AI dev team from my phone

#ai #opensource #development #claudecode

3 min read

Robin for Capawesome

Mar 17

Open Source AI Agent Skills for Capacitor Development

#opensource #ai #mobile #webdev

3 min read

Feb 11

Prototyping for Agent-First Apps

#ai #agents #opensource #javascript

4 min read

machuz

Mar 15

Git Archaeology #14 — Civilization: Why Only Some Codebases Become Civilizations

#opensource #productivity #git #career

11 min read

Safdar Ali

Mar 16

Why Open Source AI Tools Are Quietly Winning

#ai #programming #devops #opensource

2 min read

machuz

Mar 15

Git Archaeology #16 (Final) — The Engineers Who Shape Gravity

#opensource #productivity #git #career

2 min read

Mar 16

Meet your AI Waifu

#ai #ios #ipad #opensource

1 min read

Matthias Steinbauer

Feb 11

The Machine Keeps Up. You Don't. Building a Second Screen for Claude Code.

#ai #claudecode #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Arie Radle

Mar 17

How a runaway AI agent cost me $47 while I slept (and how I fixed it)

#showdev #llm #opensource #ai

2 min read

jxlee007

Feb 11

A Picoclaw Can Compromise Your Entire System 😱

#ai #opensource #cybersecurity #devops

6 min read

Feb 15

I Built a Zero-Dependency Manga Viewer in Vanilla JavaScript 📖

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Alessio Battistutta

Mar 17

AlexClaw: A BEAM-Native Personal AI Agent Built on Elixir/OTP

#elixir #ai #opensource #agents

5 min read

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