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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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Tsunamayo

Mar 1

I built a desktop app that orchestrates Claude, GPT, Gemini and local Ollama in a 3-phase pipeline

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Gus

Feb 27

How I Built a Security Flywheel for AI Agents in 14 Days

#security #ai #opensource #agents

4 min read

Cover image for The File That Sits Between package.json and README.md

Jan 27

The File That Sits Between package.json and README.md

#programming #opensource #ai #tooling

4 min read

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DEV Weekend Challenge: Community

Jash Patel

Mar 1

The Open Source Bridge: An AI-Powered Engine for Your Next Major Contribution

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #opensource

3 min read

Gus

Mar 1

The Promptware Kill Chain: Prompt Injection Is Just the Door. Here's the Full Attack.

#security #ai #opensource #agents

12 min read

WonderLab

Mar 2

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 3): Superpowers - A Workflow Framework That Gives AI Programming Assistants Superpowers"

#opensource #ai

8 min read

WonderLab

Mar 2

OpenClaw Source Deep Dive (2): Channels & Routing — How Does a Message Find Its Agent?

#ai #openclaw #opensource

8 min read

Mar 2

I Migrated Years of ChatGPT Conversations to Claude Using Cowork. Here's How.

#ai #productivity #claude #opensource

4 min read

Jan 26

I got tired of my web app silently breaking after every deploy, so I built an open source QA platform

#webdev #opensource #testing #javascript

4 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 2

I Built 13 AI Agents That Run My Life — Here's the Architecture

#ai #opensource #agents #typescript

2 min read

Aureus

Jan 26

Why Documentation Should Be Worth More Than Code

#opensource #documentation #programming #devops

3 min read

Aureus

Jan 26

Day-Aware Governance: Why Your Decision Systems Should Know What Day It Is

#governance #python #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for FSCSS: Overview of the latest 20+ array methods

Mar 2

FSCSS: Overview of the latest 20+ array methods

#fscss #opensource #node #css

3 min read

Cover image for The Armored AI Agent You Can Actually Trust

Juan Denis

Feb 6

The Armored AI Agent You Can Actually Trust

#ai #opensource #python #security

3 min read

Cover image for Linite: Building a Cross-Distro Linux Package Manager with Python and Tkinter

Mar 1

Linite: Building a Cross-Distro Linux Package Manager with Python and Tkinter

#linux #python #opensource #tkinter

5 min read

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