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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

You've been writing Sumerish for years. You just didn't know it had a name.

#javascript #opensource #devtools #naming

2 min read

Igor Ganapolsky

Apr 15

ThumbGate v1.4.1: Pre-action Safety Gates for AI Coding Agents (Free + Pro)

#claudecode #ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

vdalhambra

Apr 14

From 0 to 27 directories in 1 week: the honest MCP distribution playbook

#mcp #opensource #python #ai

4 min read

蔡俊鹏

May 8

What Is Dify? The Open-Source AI App Platform Every Developer Should Know

#dify #opensource #langchain #agents

5 min read

aras

Apr 14

Cutting LLM tokens 10x for AI browser automation

#typescript #ai #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Apr 14

I gave Claude Code a project-management UI

#ai #claude #rust #opensource

4 min read

Lakshmi Surya Kalla

Apr 14

A Voice-Controlled AI Agent for Real-World Task Execution

#ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Sufyan bin Uzayr

Apr 15

Blueprint: Publishing Bloat-Free Flutter Packages to pub.dev

#flutter #bloat #pubdev #opensource

2 min read

Ruthel Cedrick Ascens BALOCK

Apr 14

I built a headless hook, ref API & ledger view for my React accounting component

#react #typescript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Lax

Apr 14

Why we ditched the knowledge graph approach for agent memory

#showdev #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Apr 14

MXGo.ai: privacy-first AI layer for your emails that works without any installation

#ai #automation #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Comad.J

Apr 14

Why I Reversed My Own Architecture After 27 AI Luminaries Reviewed It

#ai #opensource #architecture #typescript

8 min read

May 7

I open-sourced a 4-agent adversarial code review team. Any coding agent can call it as an MCP server. Built in heym.

#ai #mcp #agents #opensource

6 min read

Alan West

Apr 14

Why Embedding Web Content in Rust Was So Painful (Until Now)

#rust #servo #webdev #opensource

6 min read

May 7

Milestone! 1200th PR Merged to Ruby Core

#ruby #opensource #contributing

1 min read

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