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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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Carrie

Apr 10

My Bestie Built a Free MCP Server for Job Search — Here's How It Works

#ai #career #mcp #opensource

2 min read

Rivo Link

Apr 24

leaf — a terminal Markdown previewer

#cli #markdown #opensource #terminal

1 min read

Apr 23

Speaking the Corpus's Language: How Multilingual RAG Stays Coherent Across Turns

#rag #python #opensource #architecture

8 min read

Apr 14

Claude Code's channel system is limited to one bot, one terminal — here's how I fixed it

#claude #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Nicola

Apr 10

Stop Rewriting Go Service Boilerplate: Ship a Production-Ready API Faster with gogen

#go #opensource #programming #softwareengineering

5 min read

TeHsuWang

Apr 10

I Built This Tool With Three AIs at Once — Claude, Gemini, and Copilot

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Apr 10

AI Model Pricing Is a Mess — Here Is How We Track It

#ai #llm #mcp #opensource

2 min read

Midas126

Apr 10

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Guide to Codebase Q&A with AI

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

5 min read

Apr 14

Teach Your AI Coding Agent to Run Accessibility Audits

#showdev #a11y #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Apr 10

Ever Caught Yourself Pressing (arrow-up key) Over and Over?

#cli #programming #opensource #github

2 min read

guanjiawei

Apr 10

HappyHorse and the Hard Demand for Text-to-Video Privatization

#ai #videogeneration #hardware #opensource

7 min read

neuzhou

Apr 10

What I Learned Reading 15 AI Agent Codebases

#ai #agents #opensource #architecture

6 min read

Le Anh Phi

Apr 10

Experience Engine: AI Memory That Shrinks As Your Agent Learns

#ai #opensource #javascript #ollama

6 min read

Apr 10

Build Log: Implementing Full Text Overlay Feature in Reel Quick (with Accurate Live Preview)

#opensource #nextjs #fastapi #moviepy

3 min read

Apr 14

Share Anything Instantly & Securely - Text, Files, and URLs with Zero Friction

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

2 min read

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