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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 20

AstCodeSplitter in claude-context codebase.

#opensource #ast #treesitter #claude

3 min read

Harshal

Apr 19

An open-source Chrome extension to track job applications

#showdev #career #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Apr 19

Bayan Flow 0.4.0: From Algorithm Visualization to Real Understanding

#algorithms #opensource #webdev #learning

3 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Papers: The Brutal Truth About Building a Real "Second Brain" After 8 Years

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Papers: From Knowledge Base to AI Overlord - How I Accidentally Created a Digital Dictator

#ai #opensource

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Papers 2.0: When My Knowledge Base Started Learning Back at Me

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

8 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Papers: The Brutal Truth About Building a Personal AI Knowledge Base After 847 Hours

#ai #opensource #knowledgemanagement #productivity

5 min read

Apr 19

I Stopped Running API Workflows. I Taught My Agent to Own Them

#claude #ai #opensource #agents

5 min read

Apr 19

WebBrain — Free Open-Source AI Browser Agent (Self-Hostable Alternative to Claude in Chrome, Sider, Monica)

#opensource #ai #selfhosted #productivity

1 min read

Scotty G

Apr 20

Composable Agent Specs: Spec Delegation and the OAS Registry

#ai #agents #opensource

5 min read

The_resa

Apr 20

Agent Skills Explained: From Prompts to Structured AI Workflows

#ai #agents #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

Roman_14K

Apr 19

I built a Laravel queue monitoring tool because I got tired of not knowing what my jobs actually do

#laravel #php #opensource

2 min read

Nitish

Apr 19

Building a VS Code Extension — Here's What It Does & Need Your Help

#opensource #vscode #typescript #beginners

4 min read

Alexandre Rusev

Apr 19

Mixed co-simulation with IcarusVerilog and NGSpice using "MixFighter" bridge.

#opensource #tooling #cosimulation #mixedcircuit

6 min read

dekidev

Apr 20

I Built a macOS App to Reclaim Your Disk Space — NythyCleaner

#macos #swift #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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