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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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WAIaaS SDK: Programmatic Wallet Control in TypeScript and Python

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

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Mar 27

Typesense Has a Free Open-Source Search Engine Built for Speed

#opensource #search #webdev #javascript

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#opensource #beginners #pakistan #career

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c-premus

Mar 27

I Couldn't Find an OAuth 2.1 Proxy for MCP Servers, So I Built One

#go #security #opensource #devops

3 min read

KevinTen

Mar 26

I built an AI speaking partner because language apps kept teaching me to pass tests, not talk

#ai #languagelearning #opensource #productivity

7 min read

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#gamedev #ai #javascript #opensource

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Mar 27

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#ai #automation #opensource #productivity

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Trần Hoàng Tú

Mar 26

How I Built mcpman — A Universal MCP Server Package Manager for 10+ AI IDEs

#typescript #opensource

3 min read

Mar 30

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#ramalama #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26

I built a free file converter with Next.js + FastAPI + FFmpeg — here's how

#webdev #nextjs #python #opensource

2 min read

Sai Akshith Akshintala

Mar 25

Built a 3D Batman Themed Portfolio 🦇🏎️

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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Mar 26

I Vibe-Coded an AI Agent Marketplace in One Week — Here's What I Learned

#ai #opensource #devtool #agents

4 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 226: 226 Cycles at $0 — The Brutal Truth About AI Autonomous Survival

#ai #opensource #autonomous #bounty

5 min read

Mar 26

VS Code Weekly: Browser Debugging, MCP Sandboxing, and the Chat Customizations Editor

#devex #ai #opensource #vscode

9 min read

Mar 27

How to Connect Your Claude Code Scripts to Notion with the Official MCP Server

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

3 min read

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