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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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Magic.rb

Apr 25

I Built an AI Job Search Engine with Convex, TanStack, and Tavily: Here's How It Works

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

6 min read

Apr 26

I Audited My Own Open Source Library and Found 9 Security Bugs. Here's Every One.

#node #typescript #redis #opensource

7 min read

Apr 25

I open-sourced my SaaS starter — here's the part I didn't

#saas #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25

I Built an Open Source AI Platform to Manage My Diabetes

#ai #diabetes #opensource #selfhosted

2 min read

Demayne Collins

Apr 25

CodeGuard: Open Source AI Security Scanner for Developers and SecOps Teams

#security #opensource #ai #devops

2 min read

Mario

Apr 26

Chinese RFC Research Workflow for AI Agents

#productivity #ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Prakhar

Apr 25

I built an MCP server that finds you mergeable open source issues in 30 seconds

#showdev #github #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Mario

Apr 26

Arxiv Weekly LLM Papers Agent

#ai #opensource #research

2 min read

May 7

Why 1000 != 1000 in Payments

#rust #opensource #paymentlibrary #prism

7 min read

Mario

Apr 26

GPT-Researcher and AutoSearch Together

#agents #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 25

I built a shields.io alternative that renders badges as shadcn/ui buttons

#showdev #webdev #opensource #resources

4 min read

Mario

Apr 26

What Is Open-Source Deep Research?

#ai #opensource #research

3 min read

Apr 25

Deep Dive: The Cognitive Science Behind the ACLAS Neuro-Edu SDK 🏛️🧠

#ai #machinelearning #education #opensource

3 min read

Apr 25

Building the First Anti-Fragile University: Introducing ACLAS Neuro-Edu SDK v3.0 🚀

#ai #opensource #education #python

2 min read

Sam

Apr 25

A Background Job Was Crashing Our JVM Every Week - Until We Taught It to Stop

#java #opensource #architecture #backend

3 min read

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