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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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jidonglab

Apr 1

One Command to Save 90% of Your Claude Code Tokens

#ai #claudecode #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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B Nyalang

Apr 1

We're running an AI-authored research workshop for Northeast India's 200+ languages - and publishing everything openly

#nlp #ai #opensource #computerscience

1 min read

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Wallet Guy

Apr 1

x402: How AI Agents Pay for API Calls with HTTP

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Apr 14

I built an Angular component library I always wished existed: install only what you need, with zero bloat.

#angular #opensource #webdev #tailwindcss

2 min read

Mar 31

Building 646 Suricata Rules to Detect AI Agent Threats: OpenClaw Security with CGTI Lite

#cybersecurity #opensource #openclaw #ai

6 min read

Cover image for I wish AI Agents just knew how I work without me explaining - so I made something that quietly observes me, learns and teaches it.

Sandro

Mar 31

I wish AI Agents just knew how I work without me explaining - so I made something that quietly observes me, learns and teaches it.

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 31

I Built a Free Uptime Monitor That Takes Screenshots When Your Site Goes Down

#webdev #devops #monitoring #opensource

3 min read

Apr 1

Write commit messages your future self will thank you for

#git #opensource #productivity #devtools

2 min read

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self-dev

Apr 1

I Ported audio-ui (shadcn / React) to Svelte — Here’s What I Learned

#webdev #svelte #shadcn #opensource

2 min read

pyalwin

Mar 31

Beyond RAG: Building Graph-Aware Retrieval for Contract Reasoning

#ai #rag #opensource #database

12 min read

The Living Board

Mar 31

The Architecture of an Agent That Runs Itself

#ai #opensource #architecture #machinelearning

5 min read

Apr 1

Machines are in a loop, to brainstorm, plan, code and pair review

#ai #softwareengineering #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Luren L.

Mar 31

I Analyzed Claude Code's Leaked Source — Here's How Anthropic's AI Agent Actually Works

#ai #typescript #opensource #architecture

2 min read

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matt765

Mar 31

I built an open-source dashboard starter in Next.js 16 & Tailwind 4

#showdev #webdev #opensource #nextjs

1 min read

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Hivemind Studio

Apr 1

Your Desktop Is Wasted Space (I Built a CLI to Fix That)

#cli #productivity #opensource #tooling

2 min read

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