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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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Apr 22

OpenAI Euphony: A Browser-Based Viewer for Harmony Conversations and Codex CLI Sessions

#ai #openai #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Apr 21

🚀 Open Source: Svelte 5 + GSAP Creative Agency Template

#svelte #frontend #opensource #gsap

1 min read

Joey Brar

Apr 21

What Did Your Agent Do Last Night?

#ai #security #opensource #agents

2 min read

ezeiq7

Apr 21

I built a clipboard manager that doesn’t interrupt your flow — here’s why and how

#showdev #productivity #opensource #python

2 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The 54th Attempt: When Your "Knowledge Management" System Becomes an Existential Performance Art

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

5 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The 54th Attempt: When Your "Knowledge Management" System Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Failure

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

4 min read

Alan West

Apr 21

How to Spot Fake GitHub Stars Before They Burn You

#github #security #opensource #supplychainattacks

5 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The 58th Attempt: When Your "Meta-Promotion" Becomes Your Actual Product

#ai #opensource #knowledge #meta

7 min read

May 5

Five Eyes published the policy on 1 May. Mickai filed the engineering 4 weeks earlier.

#ai #security #opensource #uk

2 min read

Apr 21

Engineers Don't Want to Search Logs. They Want to Know What Broke.

#observability #ai #softwareengineering #opensource

9 min read

Dilber

Apr 21

Why Tokens Per Joule Matters More Than Tokens Per Second

#ai #opensource #python #machinelearning

6 min read

Apr 21

LLM Budget Forge

#ai #programming #opensource #agents

2 min read

Apr 22

Stop Guessing npm Package Names — Let a CLI Do It

#node #npm #cli #opensource

3 min read

Info Lyt

Apr 22

🚀 Just Published: ReactTailwindAccessKit

#showdev #a11y #opensource #react

1 min read

jay wong

Apr 21

How We Ran 28 AI Agents on a Single Server (And What Broke)

#ai #opensource #multiagent #devops

4 min read

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