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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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Jul 1

Why I Built OSE Auditor

#discuss #ai #security #opensource

1 min read

keesan.eth

Jun 30

What 12 failure classes and 30 Billion tokens spent taught us about trusting AI coding agents

#claude #productivity #opensource #devops

4 min read

mage0535

Jul 1

Snapshot Compression and Restore Helpers in Hermes Memory Installer

#ai #automation #opensource

3 min read

Jul 1

SSH Switch: A Lightweight Open-Source SSH Key Manager

#ssh #developertool #opensource #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Jun 30

We built a free, self-hosted alternative to IT Glue

#opensource #msp #sysadmin #selfhosted

3 min read

Jun 30

Four Performance Bugs AI Coders Introduce Every Day

#benchmarking #engineering #opensource

4 min read

The AI producer

Jul 1

I Built 5 Free AI Tools That Replace $200/month in SaaS Subscriptions

#webdev #tools #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Magithar Sridhar

Jun 30

I Got Tired of Asking "What Am I Missing?" — So I Made My AI Ask First

#ai #claude #openai #opensource

5 min read

Jul 1

I Used an AI Agent to Make a Product Video. The Cost Was $0, But There's a Catch.

#ai #video #opensource #python

4 min read

Jul 1

We built a portal to the weird side of YouTube

#showdev #webdev #opensource #watercooler

1 min read

Jun 30

I Built an Open-Source Canny Alternative Using Spec-First AI Development. Here's the Methodology.

#showdev #opensource #nextjs #typescript

4 min read

Jun 30

How I Built an AI-Powered Conventional Commit Generator in Python

#git #python #cli #opensource

2 min read

Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Jun 30

Forking laravel-livewire-tables for Laravel 13 + Livewire 4

#laravel #livewire #php #opensource

3 min read

FBNonaMe

Jun 30

AnimaStage Lite v1.2.3: Google Play Release, Better Multi-Model Performance & Physics Stability

#webgl #android #opensource #javascript

2 min read

n3lix

Jun 30

We wanted a simple forms API, so I built my own library

#react #opensource #nextjs #webdev

6 min read

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