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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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Florent

Mar 23

What I Learned Browsing 1,736 Dead Startups

#opensource #webdev #programming #startup

5 min read

Nelson Figueroa

Mar 24

I Created My First AI-assisted Pull Request and I Feel Like a Fraud

#ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

ai-singh07

Mar 27

I Built an AI Agent Safety Net in 48 Hours — Here's Why Every Vibe Coder Needs One

#python #opensource #beginners #vibecoding

2 min read

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Tommaso Bertocchi

Mar 23

This open-source tool scans uploads before they become a problem

#node #security #opensource #javascript

3 min read

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Mar 24

What if your context maps, event flows, and dependency graphs just... generated themselves from Markdown?

#ddd #opensource #architecture #webdev

5 min read

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Harutyun Dermenjyan

Mar 27

Automating BIND9 DNS Management: From Manual Configs to Infrastructure as Code

#devops #terraform #dns #opensource

2 min read

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Soultane

Mar 23

I got tired of writing Express.js boilerplate, so I built a CLI to do it for me. 🪓

#node #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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msaule

Mar 23

I built an AI that watches my email, calendar, GitHub, Slack and tells me what I missed

#showdev #opensource #ai #node

3 min read

srinithivijayakumars139-wq

Mar 23

Setting up Wagtail Bakerydemo Locally: What I Learnt

#opensource

2 min read

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HyperNatt

Mar 23

NSP: The Open-Source Communication Protocol for Autonomous AI Agents

#ai #opensource #blockchain #web3

1 min read

KABUKI

Mar 23

Git Remembers What Changed — But Not Why. Entire CLI Is Here to Fix That

#git #agents #devops #opensource

4 min read

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jimovonz

Mar 23

I built "Invisible" Persistent Memory for Claude Code

#showdev #ai #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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Wallet Guy

Mar 24

How We Designed a 7-Stage Transaction Pipeline for AI Agents

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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Mar 23

You probably haven't audited your MCP servers or AI agent skills. This tool does it for you.

#security #ai #macos #opensource

2 min read

mogee

Mar 23

I Built an Open-Source Bridge That Turns Claude Code Into a REST API

#claude #api #opensource #javascript

3 min read

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