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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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Nguyễn Bá Tùng Lâm

Apr 6

I built a clean Web UI for Claude Code agents because the terminal was killing me rn

#ai #claudecode #programming #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for 40 Days of Building HarshAI: What I Learned About AI Automation

Apr 6

40 Days of Building HarshAI: What I Learned About AI Automation

#harshaiproductivity #ai #buildinpublic #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for HarshAI: I Built a Zapier Killer in 40 Days (Open Source)

Apr 6

HarshAI: I Built a Zapier Killer in 40 Days (Open Source)

#ai #opensource #nocode #automation

2 min read

Tripadh .V

Apr 6

I Built an Open-Source AI Prompt Optimizer Using Llama 3 + Groq

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

yujinze

Apr 6

I Built an AI Agent That Converts Natural Language to Architecture Diagrams — Here's How It Works

#ai #opensource #drawio #mcp

1 min read

Vlad George Iftode

Apr 5

I built a trust layer for AI agents and let 21 of them run an economy

#ai #rust #python #opensource

2 min read

LocalLensProject

Apr 6

Why We Built a Local-First iPhone Authenticator Instead of Another Cloud-Synced 2FA App

#opensource #security #ios #privacy

1 min read

WonderLab

Apr 6

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 31): awesome-openclaw-usecases - A Collection of Real OpenClaw Use Cases

#ai #opensource #openclaw

7 min read

Nex AI

Apr 5

I Built 15 OpenClaw Skills for Belgian SMEs: Technical Decisions and Lessons Learned

#python #opensource #api #ecommerce

5 min read

Apr 5

Why agent RBAC is broken in most CLI frameworks (and how to fix it)

#ai #security #devops #opensource

4 min read

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Aayush kumarsingh

May 8

Why comparing average scores is the wrong way to evaluate LLM prompts (and what to do instead)

#python #llm #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

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Ryan Swift

May 6

Mac-Only? Just Fork It

#agents #linux #ai #opensource

5 min read

Wu Long

Apr 5

The Silent Freeze: When Your Model Runs Out of Credits Mid-Conversation

#ai #opensource #errors #llm

1 min read

solido

Apr 5

I Built a Cost Calculator for the OpenClaw Ban Because It Hit Me Too

#showdev #ai #indiehacker #opensource

2 min read

guanjiawei

Apr 7

The DeepSeek Moment for the Open Source Community

#ai #opensource #models #reflection

6 min read

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