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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.

submission guidelines

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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Zw-awa

Apr 21

I Got Tired of Splitting My Brain Between Local AI and Remote SSH, So I Built ssh-session-mcp

#ai #mcp #ssh #opensource

5 min read

Cover image for I Wrote a Script to Fix Audible's Unreadable PDF Filenames

Apr 21

I Wrote a Script to Fix Audible's Unreadable PDF Filenames

#showdev #python #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 21

I Built an AI Tool That Shows How to Reach Your Dream Career

#ai #career #guidance #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for One Open Source Project a Day (No.44): MemPalace - The AI Memory System Built by the Star of Resident Evil

WonderLab

Apr 21

One Open Source Project a Day (No.44): MemPalace - The AI Memory System Built by the Star of Resident Evil

#ai #opensource #agents #mcp

8 min read

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Ritusmoi Kaushik

Apr 21

I Open-Sourced the Core of My GST Tool. Here's What I Kept Private.

#opensource #python #saas #indiehackers

4 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 21

Stuck in the Woods (and a Crafting Rut!)

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Giving KIOKU (my Claude Code memory OSS) PDF and URL ingestion

megaphone

Apr 21

Giving KIOKU (my Claude Code memory OSS) PDF and URL ingestion

#claudecode #ai #mcp #opensource

10 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

Building a Digital Time Machine: The Brutal Reality Check - Part 2

#ar #javascript #mobile #opensource

6 min read

Sreethul

Apr 21

Simplifying Anviz CrossChex Cloud Integration in Python (crosschexcloudapi)

#showdev #api #opensource #python

2 min read

ShaiZadok

Apr 21

I built a 100-point prompt scorer for SUNO AI — 16 checks, open-source on npm

#ai #opensource #npm #music

3 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

From Search Chaos to Retrieval Bliss: How I Fixed My Knowledge Management System's Core Problem

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

6 min read

Sreethul

Apr 21

I Built a Python Library for Matrix COSEC Biometric Devices (So You Don’t Have To)

#showdev #api #opensource #python

3 min read

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Tiana

Apr 21

Focus Factor fixed my sprint planning. Here is the method and a tool I built for it

#agile #scrum #productivity #opensource

4 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The Brutal Truth About Building Your "Second Brain": What 40 Dev.to Posts Taught Me About Failure

#ai #opensource

4 min read

Yan

Apr 21

NUMBA 3 Making Gesture Control Feel Natural

#showdev #python #computervision #opensource

2 min read

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