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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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Mark

May 6

A much faster mgsub

#showdev #opensource #performance #programming

2 min read

Aleksander Sekowski

Apr 20

I Built a VS Code Extension That Validates VAST XML as You Type

#vscode #adtech #opensource #rust

3 min read

Gajendra Malviya

Apr 20

I built a tool because I was tired of re-explaining my project to every AI

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Vincenzo Rubino

Apr 20

The State of Package Health: Weekly Report #002

#security #webdev #devops #opensource

3 min read

Yu Han

Apr 20

Generating Java from JSON Schema

#java #jsonschema #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 20

10 Best Open Source Projects Every Developer Should Know (Including One You've Never Heard Of)

#opensource #webdev #javascript #devtools

8 min read

Tracks gradual policy erosion across turns

Apr 21

I Built a Policy Drift Detector for LLM Agents. Here's What Four Versions Taught Me.

#llmsecurity #security #python #opensource

6 min read

Recca Tsai

Apr 20

Strauss: The Better Mozart for WordPress Plugin Dependency Isolation

#opensource #php #tooling #wordpress

3 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

From Knowledge Base to AI System: How Papers Evolved Beyond My Wildest Dreams

#ai #opensource #tech #development

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The 57th Attempt: When Your "Meta-Promotion" Strategy Becomes the Main Product

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

5 min read

David

Apr 20

One npx command to give your agent on-chain reputation

#ai #agents #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Ege Pakten

Apr 20

Two Main Sources of ML Models: Pre-trained vs Custom — Which One Should You Use?

#ai #beginners #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Ashley Pfeiffer

Apr 19

We Scored 100 Sites on Agent Readiness. Every One Failed.

#ai #mcp #webdev #opensource

3 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

The Brutal Truth About Learning AI Agents: What I Learned from Building 17 Broken Versions

#ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 21

How to Safely Run AI-Generated Code with SmolVM (Open-Source MicroVM Sandbox)

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

8 min read

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