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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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Feb 13

Clawdbot Leaked 1.5 Million API Keys. Here Is What I Built to Stop It Happening to You.

#ai #opensource #security #automation

3 min read

Feb 13

I built a desktop app to replace my 15 terminal tabs and janky startup scripts

#opensource #devtools #ai #docker

2 min read

Feb 13

GDPR-Compliant Screen Recording: What You Actually Need to Know

#gdpr #privacy #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Feb 13

Your AI Agent Forgets Everything. Here's How to Give It a Brain That Actually Thinks.

#ai #security #opensource #programming

3 min read

Kazu

Feb 13

Beyond Lines: Announcing "gosemdiff" – A Logic-Aware Diff Tool for Go

#go #opensource #analytics #refactoring

2 min read

Amirhesam Bahmankhah

Feb 17

WPLite — A Laravel-Inspired Micro Framework for WordPress Plugin Development

#wordpress #php #laravel #opensource

8 min read

Feb 14

Cute Magick: A Website Platform You Can Call Home

#webdev #opensource #docker #selfhosted

5 min read

OCLauncher Team

Feb 13

Deploying a 24/7 AI Personal Assistant on Fly.io: The Manual Guide (and the 30-second Shortcut)

#ai #opensource #automation #tutorial

3 min read

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Feb 13

OpenClaw Ruined My Project (And I'm Grateful It Did)

#ai #opensource #devjournal #programming

3 min read

Eddie

Feb 15

I built an open-source workflow kit that turns AI agents into structured data analysis partners

#opensource #productivity #ai #analytics

3 min read

choutos

Feb 17

When the Landlord Moves Into the Polvaria

#opensource #ai #opinion #software

7 min read

Samuel EF. Tinnerholm

Feb 13

domeapi.io free and open source alternative

#cryptocurrency #opensource #api #github

2 min read

Feb 14

Introducing vidpipe — My AI Video Editor That Does Everything

#opensource #ai #automation #github

8 min read

GuardingPearSoftware

Feb 13

Is OpenClaw an opportunity for game developers and studios?

#agents #ai #gamedev #opensource

5 min read

Gordienko Roman

Feb 13

I Built 19 Free Developer Tools That Run Entirely in the Browser — Here's What I Learned

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

4 min read

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