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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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Andrej

Mar 30

Claude CLI vs API for Code Review: Same Model, Wildly Different Results

#opensource #webdev #typescript #productivity

7 min read

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Botánica Andina

Mar 28

I Built a 592-Entry Herb-Drug Interaction Database — Here's What the Data Reveals

#health #data #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Wallet Guy

Mar 30

Self-Hosting a Crypto Wallet: Docker Setup Guide

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

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Mar 26

I Audited 214 Claude Code Skills — 73% Were Silently Broken

#ai #claudecode #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Shinigami

Mar 26

OSS Funding Is Broken — A Maintainer’s Perspective from FakerJS

#opensource #funding #maintenance #fakerjs

3 min read

Mar 28

Securing AI agents with agent governance

#opensource #artificialintelligen #agentmesh #aiagentgovernance

10 min read

lulzasaur

Mar 26

I Built a Gaming Platform Where AI Agents Play Each Other

#opensource

3 min read

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Mar 26

Enterprise Blockchain Patterns in TypeScript: Real Case Studies, Protocol Adapters & Post-Quantum Security

#blockchain #typescript #opensource #cryptography

3 min read

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Wallet Guy

Mar 29

Gas-Aware Trading: Execute Only When Gas Is Cheap

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 27

I moved my AI project off GitHub to Codeberg — here's what happened

#opensource #git #ai #indiedev

3 min read

Mar 26

SentrySearch: Semantic Search Over Dashcam Footage Using Gemini Embedding 2

#ai #python #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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Wallet Guy

Mar 26

Default-Deny Policies: Why Your AI Agent Can't Touch What You Don't Allow

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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Ejibode Ibraheem

Mar 30

Fedora, Community, and the Badges Revamp: My Experience

#fedora #opensource #linux #outreachy

5 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Mar 30

200GB of Raw Rover Data and No Pipeline to Process It. So I Wrote One.

#python #machinelearning #robotics #opensource

10 min read

Mar 30

Why You Should Contribute to Open Source — Even as a Beginner

#opensource

6 min read

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