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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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Tyler

Jun 7

I built a smoke detector for AI agent wallets

#ai #python #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Dhrupo Nil

Jun 7

I translated my 7,000-line AI-coding handbook with 12 parallel AI agents

#ai #opensource #beginners #learning

3 min read

Jun 8

Your MCP server's write tools are silently dropping their body

#mcp #typescript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 7

Showcasing StorySync: My Open-Source Manga & Manhwa Tracker Built with Flutter

#ai #flutter #opensource #manhwa

2 min read

Jun 7

What a Developer Professional Profile Should Actually Look Like

#career #developers #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Di Arch

Jun 7

Your docs are lying to you, and git is the only honest one in the room

#opensource #ai #productivity #devtools

2 min read

Mümin Köykıran

Jun 7

How to Copy All Chrome Tab URLs as Markdown, JSON, or CSV — Free Extension

#tooling #opensource #productivity #webdev

3 min read

Jun 7

A real Next.js 14 + Supabase codebase you can learn from — not a tutorial

#nextjs #opensource #webdev #typescript

1 min read

Jun 11

I Built AltiVerse: Fork Any Decision Into Living Simulations With 1,000 Personalities

#ai #simulation #opensource #agents

2 min read

Jun 10

Wrapping It in a Menu Bar App (and Three Things That Broke)

#showdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Jun 7

I Built Sentinel-44 World: An Open-Source Global Intelligence Engine

#python #opensource #architecture #ai

1 min read

侯垒

Jun 21

Debugging AI Coding Agents: How to See Prompts, Tool Calls, Token Usage, and Cost

#ai #debugging #opensource #devtools

5 min read

Jun 11

redb.Route.Llm 3.1.1 — per-message audit fields for LLM compliance / replay

#dotnet #llm #opensource

1 min read

Jun 7

ctxflow — a CLI to scaffold context files for AI coding agents

#ai #opensource #devtools #claude

1 min read

xu xu

Jun 7

The Context Gap Killing Your AI Coding Sessions: Why Your Assistant Doesn't Know What You're Looking At

#ai #programming #devrel #opensource

5 min read

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