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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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optml

Mar 4

Why You Need an MCP Gateway for Enterprise AI Agents

#mcp #ai #opensource #security

4 min read

Mar 4

VoxPilot v0.3.7: Transcript History

#vscode #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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Made Büro

Mar 4

Make WooCommerce and Wordpress Visible to ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity

#woocommerce #wordpress #ai #opensource

2 min read

Feb 9

InALign: Tamper-Proof Audit Trails for AI Agents

#ai #security #opensource #devtools

3 min read

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Woojin Ahn

Feb 21

I built a GitHub star monitor in a single YAML file — zero dependencies, zero config

#github #opensource #actions #automation

3 min read

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Shahnoor_Mujawar

Mar 4

dotenv Hasn't Evolved in 10 Years — So I Built Something Better

#javascript #opensource #developers #node

2 min read

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Lordkro

Feb 9

I built a privacy-first image toolkit — all processing happens in your browser, zero server uploads

#webdev #programming #react #opensource

1 min read

Feb 9

Git's Line-Based Merge is Broken for the AI Agent Era

#git #ai #devtools #opensource

5 min read

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Javad

Feb 8

🚀 OLSRT v1.2: A Powerful Runtime for All Programming Languages!

#programming #opensource #olsrt #overlab

2 min read

Feb 8

I Built an E2E Test Runner Where Tests Are JSON, Not Code

#testing #opensource #node #ai

1 min read

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Feb 8

What It Actually Costs to Run a SaaS on EU Infrastructure

#opensource #startup #devops #cloud

5 min read

Mar 4

Your MCP Servers Are Safe. Your Config Isn't.

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

7 min read

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Hata

Mar 4

Claude Code Forgets Everything Between Sessions. I Tested 5 Fixes.

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

7 min read

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Feb 8

I Built a Vercel for Landing Pages — With a CLI and an MCP Server

#webdev #opensource #ai #cli

3 min read

yusyus

Feb 8

Skill Seekers v3.0.0: The Universal Data Preprocessor for AI Systems

#ai #rag #opensource

3 min read

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