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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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Mar 15

I built a self-evolving AI engine with 6 nodes and shipped 4 products in one day

#showdev #ai #opensource #react

2 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

The 4-Day Work Week Is Already Here (You Just Don't Know It Yet)

#productivity #career #programming #opensource

4 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

Building a PTO Optimizer with JavaScript: The Algorithm Explained

#javascript #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

The PTO Mistake That Costs Americans 172 Million Vacation Days a Year

#productivity #career #programming #opensource

4 min read

Max

Mar 15

Giving it away

#ai #claude #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Mar 16

Joplin Server Sync Issues

#networking #opensource #productivity #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 15

Why AI Agents Need Their Own Authorization Protocol (and How We Built One)

#ai #security #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Chris King

Mar 16

Open-Sourcing VoxCast: CPU-Only Multi-Turn Podcast Generation With Low Memory Usage

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Adarsh Agrahari

Mar 15

most coding agents are still too stateless for real software workflows

#ai #opensource #mcp #agents

3 min read

kagioneko

Mar 15

I built an open-source \"limbic system\" for AI agents — emotion, bias, and memory as MCP servers

#mcp #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Algis

Mar 15

Beyond BM25: The Future of MCP Tool Discovery

#mcp #ai #search #opensource

3 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 29

I Built a Free Supplement Interaction Database with 590+ Drug-Herb Combinations

#showdev #webdev #health #opensource

4 min read

Rock

Mar 15

Open Source AI Agent for Remote PC Control: The OpenClaw Alternative Built Into LangBot

#ai #opensource #automation #productivity

4 min read

Safdar Ali

Mar 15

The Agentic Web Is Coming: Why Websites Will Soon Talk to AI Agents

#ai #webdev #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Sudhanshu Ambastha

Mar 15

I Built a Cyberpunk Dev Registry (And Now It’s Open Source)

#showdev #opensource #sideprojects #tooling

2 min read

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