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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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David Flores Flores

Jun 24

How I Built a Free ACS Citation Generator for Chemistry Papers

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Jun 23

Adopt vs build: why we deleted our working logbook for SignalK

#ai #mcp #signalk #opensource

4 min read

koushikshyamala

Jun 24

A Free, Zero-Dependency Glassmorphism CSS Generator

#webdev #css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

tokencnn

Jun 24

Building a Multilingual AI Chatbot for Indian Languages with Qwen 3

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Jun 24

"Prove your AI-written code — or get the exact input that breaks it"

#ai #opensource #python #testing

3 min read

Sudarshan Thakur

Jun 23

Five Features I Shipped in tfdrift That Changed How We Handle Terraform Drift

#terraform #devops #opensource #cloudcomputing

5 min read

Tatiana Radchenko 🇩🇰

Jun 23

I've been building SEISMOGRAPH for 3 weeks. Here's what shipped today

#ai #opensource #python #machinelearning

3 min read

WonderLab

Jun 24

Open Source Project of the Day (#104): AgentScope 2.0 — Alibaba's Production-Ready Agent Framework Built Around Model Reasoning

#ai #opensource #agents #llm

7 min read

Jun 24

三层记忆召回：AI Agent 如何从「记住」进化到「知道」

#ai #automation #opensource

1 min read

m-naoki-m

Jun 24

What the JSON Formatter Leaks Taught Me About Browser-Side Tools

#webdev #javascript #security #opensource

4 min read

Jun 24

How to Use Novita with Dify for a Low-Cost AI Workflow

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

SandGrid

Jun 24

I build an open-source ,completely free AI video generator

#ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

Jun 23

Compile-time feature flags in C# using IL weaving and a Roslyn analyzer

#dotnet #csharp #architecture #opensource

7 min read

Alligator

Jun 23

Prompts and RBAC won't stop your agent from refunding someone twice

#ai #llm #security #opensource

5 min read

ClawBase

Jun 24

Your AI Agent's Memory Should Be Out of Reach. For Everyone Except You.

#ai #security #privacy #opensource

5 min read

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