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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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Apr 10

How One Field in a Sort Query Brought Down Our OpenSearch Cluster

#opensearch #incident #opensource

5 min read

Apr 10

Your AI coding agent is winging it. Here's how to stop that.

#ai #opensource #productivity #claude

3 min read

Apr 24

The silent problem with AI-written code: the intent evaporates

#ai #claudecode #mcp #opensource

4 min read

KimDoYoon

Apr 10

I made a terminal-style SVG card generator for GitHub READMEs (and this is my first post ever, please be nice)

#github #webdev #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Ryuz

Apr 14

I Built a UI Library in ~1,500 Lines of Code. Here's Why.

#javascript #webdev #opensource #frontend

5 min read

Linh

Apr 10

I Built Routiform After Hitting Every Limit with 9router and OmniRoute

#ai #openai #opensource #llm

4 min read

Apr 10

I Built a Free Puzzle Generator That Supports 8 Languages — Here's What I Learned

#nextjs #opensource #webdev #seo

3 min read

Serhii Kravchenko

Apr 10

I Run 7 Projects in Claude Code Simultaneously. Here's the Memory System That Makes It Possible.

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

11 min read

Apr 10

Why I’m finally open-sourcing my architectural work after 20 years building private enterprise systems

#hello #architecture #opensource #security

1 min read

Apr 11

🚀 I Built an Open Source AI Code Assistant (OpenWorkbench-AI)

#showdev #ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

Apr 23

Notes from Reading Claude Code's Leaked Source

#ai #typescript #security #opensource

17 min read

yutaro

Apr 10

FaultRay: Why We Formalized Cascade Failure Propagation as a Labeled Transition System

#chaosengineering #reliability #python #opensource

7 min read

Md Mijanur Molla

Apr 12

# I Created a “Typing Indicator” Challenge… And It Showed Users Typing Forever 👻

#webdev #vibecodearena #opensource #security

2 min read

Arjun M

Apr 24

Making Python CLIs Simple Again with Klix

#klix #cli #python #opensource

3 min read

Apr 10

Turn a personal WeChat account into an agent bridge with wechat-relay

#agents #automation #cli #opensource

4 min read

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