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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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southy404

Apr 15

OpenBlob is evolving: better architecture, modern UI, and real-time transcripts

#opensource #ai #agents #github

3 min read

Apr 15

Four Security Bugs That Shipped in AI-Generated Code (and How They Got Caught)

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

Apr 15

How to Set Up a Free Coding Agent on Your Machine in 10 Minutes

#ai #opencode #ollama #opensource

5 min read

Apr 16

I Open-Sourced My 5-Agent AI Toolkit Before Monetizing It (Here's the Repo)

#opensource #ai #claudeai #automation

3 min read

Halfblood Prince

Apr 15

I Almost Installed a Malicious Python Package: So, I Built trustcheck

#python #security #opensource #devtool

3 min read

Buffer Overflow

Apr 15

I Built a Compression Algorithm That Beats Gzip in 2 Weeks. I Have an A+ Cert.

#rust #compression #algorithms #opensource

7 min read

Apr 16

156 Files Explained: The Full Anatomy of a Multi-Agent AI Startup Repo

#ai #opensource #architecture #claudeai

2 min read

Apr 16

The 46-Skill Panel: How We Built a Claude Code Skill Library for a 13-Agent System

#claudeai #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

SuperiorIntelligence

Apr 16

I Built a Real-Time Chess Analyzer That Reads Your Screen Using Python + Stockfish + Lc0

#python #chess #opensource #computervision

1 min read

Jason (AKA SEM)

Apr 16

Stop Asking People to Describe Their Jobs. Start Extracting Their Rules.

#ai #opensource #architecture #agentaichallenge

15 min read

Apr 15

I Ate My Own Dog Food: How I Benchmarked AI Skills and Proved Eval-Driven Development Works

#ai #qa #opensource #openclaw

3 min read

Apr 15

I built a self-improving home server that autoconfigures itself

#showdev #opensource #ai #typescript

4 min read

WebhookLab

Apr 15

I built an open-source webhook debugger, shipped it 55 days ago, and here's what happened

#webdev #go #opensource #devtools

4 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 15

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Apr 15

Eval-Driven Development for AI Agent Skills

#opencode #typescript #ai #opensource

3 min read

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