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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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Aleksandar Maletic

Mar 2

Meet BlokJS - 9 KB, No Build Step, Standalone, Full FE Framework

#javascript #frontend #webdev #opensource

6 min read

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Amol Yadav

Mar 3

Adding Traffic Prioritization to Node.js: The Story Behind setTypeOfService

#opensource #node #programming #architecture

4 min read

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Nathan Kamokoue

Mar 3

How I built an architecture diagram tool that actually stays in sync with your code

#architecture #opensource #ai #vibecoding

5 min read

Mar 2

I Turned My APIs Into README Badges — Here's Why

#showdev #webdev #api #opensource

3 min read

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

Mar 2

Using Slightly Broken Smartphones thanks to Accessibility

#ai #android #mobile #opensource

10 min read

WonderLab

Mar 3

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 4): OpenCode - A Powerful AI Coding Agent Built for the Terminal

#opensource #ai

8 min read

Mar 3

Every AI Agent Framework Has a Memory Problem. Here's How I Fixed Mine.

#ai #typescript #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

Mar 3

I Built AI Agents That Create Their Own Tools at Runtime. Here's How (and Why Nobody Else Does This)

#ai #typescript #opensource #chatbot

5 min read

Baz

Mar 3

I built a 6-pass security scanner for OpenClaw skills after 824 malicious ones were found on ClawHub

#security #opensource #ai #cli

2 min read

Mar 3

I Was Tired of SSH — So I Built an AI Agent That Lets Me Check My Terminal From My Phone

#devops #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Mar 3

OpenTelemetry Webinars - The Open Agent Management Protocol

#agents #devops #monitoring #opensource

15 min read

Cover image for Your AI Reads Your Docstrings. Are They Right?

Mar 3

Your AI Reads Your Docstrings. Are They Right?

#python #ai #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Mar 3

Build a voice agent in JavaScript with Vercel AI SDK

#ai #javascript #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

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Dennis Dam

Mar 3

I built a config-driven graph editor for Angular — here's what I learned

#angular #typescript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Cover image for How to Install and Run OpenClaw: An Open-Source Personal AI Assistant

Auden

Mar 3

How to Install and Run OpenClaw: An Open-Source Personal AI Assistant

#ai #tutorial #opensource #openclaw

4 min read

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