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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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Midas126

Apr 11

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Guide to Semantic Code Search with LLMs

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

6 min read

Apr 11

Cryptographic Proof of Agent-to-Agent Handoffs in Python

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

5 min read

SidClaw

Apr 10

How to add human approval to MCP tool calls — no code changes

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 10

Agent SRE — SLOs, Error Budgets, and Circuit Breakers for AI Agents

#ai #sre #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Apr 10

How I Built a Web Interface for 1.4 Million Government Documents with FastAPI, HTMX, and SQLite

#showdev #python #webdev #opensource

3 min read

davidtechanalyst

Apr 11

Stop Building AI Agents from Scratch: A Guide to the Best Frameworks in 2026

#opensource #python #webdev #ai

2 min read

Greeves89

Apr 10

I built a self-hosted multi-agent AI platform – here's what I learned

#ai #selfhosted #docker #opensource

3 min read

Apr 11

OCP v3.5.0: Zero-Config LAN Sharing — Your Family Can Use Claude in 30 Seconds

#opensource #ai #claude #productivity

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Hamza A

Apr 10

Rune: A Rust-Native AI Runtime — And Why It Needs Contributors

#rust #ai #opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Gabriel Womelsdorf

Apr 10

Is My Thermostat Lying? Designing a Low-Power Multi-Sensor Node (Series)

#iot #programming #opensource #design

4 min read

Silas C

Apr 10

I replaced my job search spreadsheet with a simpler CV workflow

#career #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

jidonglab

Apr 11

Why Your pip Install Output Doesn't Belong in Claude's Context

#ai #productivity #programming #opensource

2 min read

Apr 10

6 outils gratuits que j'ai construits pour les auto-entrepreneurs français

#french #entrepreneur #opensource #webdev

2 min read

lsj

Apr 12

I built a FIRE calculator in a single HTML file. Here's the math.

#javascript #finance #opensource #webdev

2 min read

AttractivePenguin

Apr 15

How to Create Professional Demo Videos for Free with OpenScreen

#opensource #productivity #tools #webdev

6 min read

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