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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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Cover image for AIMock: One Mock Server For Your Entire AI Stack

Drift detection for catching API changes

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Apr 8

AIMock: One Mock Server For Your Entire AI Stack

#ai #opensource #testing #programming

13 min read

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Fernando

Apr 8

Clawshier OpenClaw Skill

#ai #openclaw #opensource #openai

3 min read

EClawbot Official

Apr 9

Connect Claude Code to EClaw: Autonomous AI Task Execution via Kanban

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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Apr 9

I Built Blackdesk, a Keyboard-First Market Research Terminal with AI Connectors

#opensource #go #claude #openai

4 min read

neuzhou

Apr 9

I Read Every Line of Milla Jovovich's MemPalace — 7,600 Lines of Python, 30K Stars

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Apr 9

Why I stopped paying for SaaS tools and built my own Docker ecosystem instead

#docker #selfhosted #opensource #webdev

5 min read

konippi

Apr 9

Stop storing your GitHub App private key in GitHub Secrets

#aws #security #github #opensource

7 min read

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Apr 9

AI Coding Agents Can Verify Some of Their Work Now. Here's What They Still Miss.

#opensource #ai #devops #typescript

4 min read

Cover image for AI SLOP Detector v3.1: Three Formula Refinements and the Adversarial Tester That Found Them

Apr 9

AI SLOP Detector v3.1: Three Formula Refinements and the Adversarial Tester That Found Them

#opensource #python #architecture #devtool

12 min read

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Apr 9

Your Vibe-Coded App Looks Ugly. Here's What I Did About It.

#vibecoding #claude #ai #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for NVIDIA Is Investing in an Open Source Game Engine. Here's Why That Matters.

Ziva

Apr 9

NVIDIA Is Investing in an Open Source Game Engine. Here's Why That Matters.

#opensource #gamedev #ai #programming

3 min read

Cover image for I Built a Free Browser-Based Chart Builder and Report Creator — Here's How It Works

Apr 9

I Built a Free Browser-Based Chart Builder and Report Creator — Here's How It Works

#webdev #javascript #opensource #datascience

3 min read

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Karlis

Apr 9

Building Repo Promoter Agent for the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Hackathon

#ai #opensource

2 min read

YiYaoAI

Apr 9

I Stopped Paying for AI CLI Chaos: This Local Gateway Makes Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini Work as One

#opensource #ai #devtools #programming

3 min read

Cover image for I built a merge gate that quizzes developers on their own code changes — here's why and how

Apr 9

I built a merge gate that quizzes developers on their own code changes — here's why and how

#github #opensource #ai #devops

3 min read

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