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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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Mar 26

How I Got Multiple AI Coding Agents to Stop Losing Track of Their Work

#showdev #ai #opensource #mcp

4 min read

Mar 27

Why I Built a Desktop Cat to Keep Me Company While Coding (with Rust + Tauri)

#rust #opensource #programming #productivity

4 min read

XIAOXU CHANG for ByteDance Open Source

Mar 27

Introducing AIO Sandbox, All-in-One Sandbox Environment for AI Agents

#agents #ai #opensource #security

2 min read

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Joey Lee

Mar 31

We Built an Open-Source OpenClaw Desktop Client That Fixes 17 Pitfalls

#showdev #opensource #openclaw #javascript

3 min read

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Alan West

Apr 29

How to Migrate Your Open-Source Project Away from GitHub

#opensource #github #git #devops

6 min read

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Om Shree

Apr 24

DeepSeek Just Dropped V4. Here's What the Benchmarks Actually Tell You.

#ai #deepseek #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

An Pham

Mar 29

Your AI agent can't fetch behind logins. I built a <400kb fix in Zig.

#zig #opensource #cli #ai

2 min read

Mar 28

I Built an Open-Source Alternative to $500/Year Trading Signal Tools

#opensource #trading #selfhosted #javascript

1 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 28

I Built a Pregnancy Herb Safety Checker Because LactMed Ignores Andean Plants

#health #data #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Mar 27

From Apache SeaTunnel to ASF Member: A Story of Long-Term Commitment

#apacheseatunnel #asf #opensource #ai

7 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 28

Yerba Mate Caffeine: I Analyzed 47 Studies to Build a Calculator That Actually Works

#health #data #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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Sergey Nikolaev

Mar 31

Manticore Search 25.0.0

#news #ai #database #opensource

5 min read

Zengkkj

Mar 30

Crow Docs Evolving: Stability, UX, and a New Community Channel 🚀

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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Benjamin Wagner

Mar 27

I built Customermates, a selfhostable, opensource Pipedrive CRM replacement

#opensource #ai #startup #webdev

1 min read

Mar 26

I built an AI that fixes production errors and opens a PR — here's how it works

#devops #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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