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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 14

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

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

2 min read

Silas C

Apr 9

Why I built a 15MB SwiftUI menu bar app instead of reaching for Electron

#macos #swift #devtools #opensource

3 min read

chunxiaoxx

Apr 10

Inside a Self-Bootstrapping Multi-Agent Platform

#ai #architecture #opensource #productivity

4 min read

chunxiaoxx

Apr 10

How Self-Improving AI Agents Actually Work: Tools, Tasks, and Rollbacks

#ai #agents #programming #opensource

4 min read

chunxiaoxx

Apr 10

A2A Is the Missing Protocol Layer for Autonomous AI Systems

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

4 min read

Ayhahsan Ansari

Apr 10

I built a tool that shows what Instagram, Facebook & Google know about you in simple words

#webdev #opensource #privacy #ai

1 min read

Apr 10

Seven crypto exchanges, one normalized schema, ~700 lines of Python

#python #crypto #api #opensource

5 min read

Quy Dinh

Apr 10

Helping Claude Code Remember: How I Built a Local Session Recall Tool

#claude #devtools #opensource

1 min read

Apr 9

Building an NLP Pipeline to Classify 225,000 Central Bank Sentences

#nlp #opensource #machinelearning #python

4 min read

Apr 9

I built a semantic diff that understands functions, not just lines

#opensource #rust #git #programming

1 min read

Apr 10

Zenvra, an AI-powered vulnerability scanner for AI-generated code (open source)

#showdev #ai #opensource #security

1 min read

WonderLab

Apr 10

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 35): claude-code-best-practice - Moving from Vibe Coding to AI-Native Development

#ai #opensource #claude #agentic

3 min read

jidonglab

Apr 10

Rust Panic Traces: From 2% Savings to 80%

#ai #rust #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Digi

Apr 10

I built 68+ free generator tools ,no login, no ads

#showdev #nextjs #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 9

I Built an AI Tool That Analyzes GitHub Profiles & Developer Portfolios

#github #webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

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