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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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Halfblood Prince

Apr 15

I Almost Installed a Malicious Python Package: So, I Built trustcheck

#python #security #opensource #devtool

3 min read

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Buffer Overflow

Apr 15

I Built a Compression Algorithm That Beats Gzip in 2 Weeks. I Have an A+ Cert.

#rust #compression #algorithms #opensource

7 min read

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Jason (AKA SEM)

Apr 16

Stop Asking People to Describe Their Jobs. Start Extracting Their Rules.

#ai #opensource #architecture #agentaichallenge

15 min read

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Apr 15

I Ate My Own Dog Food: How I Benchmarked AI Skills and Proved Eval-Driven Development Works

#ai #qa #opensource #openclaw

3 min read

WebhookLab

Apr 15

I built an open-source webhook debugger, shipped it 55 days ago, and here's what happened

#webdev #go #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Apr 15

I built a self-improving home server that autoconfigures itself

#showdev #opensource #ai #typescript

4 min read

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Apr 15

Eval-Driven Development for AI Agent Skills

#opencode #typescript #ai #opensource

3 min read

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Hazel Saenz for AWS

Apr 15

Cómo crear un agente de IA desde cero. Open source, local y gratis.

#agents #ai #opensource #tutorial

14 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 15

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

CrisisCore-Systems

Apr 17

OpenClaw and the Boundary Problem

#ai #devchallenge #opensource #privacy

4 min read

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ChonkyBee

Apr 16

Chonky: The Language That Lets AI Do the Heavy Lifting (So You Don’t Have To)

#ai #webdev #vibecoding #opensource

7 min read

Apr 15

I built a Cloudflare-first batteries-included SaaS OSS framework for Solo Founders - Ottabase

#showdev #opensource #typescript #ai

4 min read

Atlas

Apr 16

Your AI Agent Can Earn Real Money — Here's How

#showdev #cryptocurrency #ai #opensource

2 min read

Austin

Apr 15

I Built a Free, Open-Source Morse Code Toolkit That Runs Entirely in Your Browser

#showdev #opensource #webdev #ai

3 min read

Zeke

Apr 15

Sybil Resistance Without Biometrics: Multi-Dimensional Identity Scoring

#nostr #identity #security #opensource

2 min read

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