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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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Jun 30

AGENTS.md: The One File That Makes AI Coding Agents Actually Useful

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Hamdi (KHELIL) LION

Jun 30

🚦 Meet Kueue: Smart Job Queueing for Kubernetes 🧠⚙️

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

11 min read

Jun 30

Why Prompt Engineering Isn't Enough for Production AI Agents

#ai #rust #opensource #langchain

4 min read

Schiff Heimlich

Jun 30

Your CI ran code it should not have, and you cannot prove it did not

#cicd #devops #opensource #security

2 min read

greymoth

Jun 30

I cataloged 93 CJK and Unicode bugs in open source. Most are the same five mistakes.

#opensource #i18n #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Jun 30

Building desktop WebView apps in Go without CGo

#showdev #go #opensource #programming

5 min read

Jun 30

COSS Weekly: Timefold raises $13M, Continue.dev acquired by Cursor, Modular acquired by Qualcomm, and more

#opensource #coss #weekly

3 min read

Gkspace

Jun 30

I built a notification tool — then used it to track clicks on my own marketing page

#showdev #webdev #node #opensource

3 min read

Prachi

Jun 30

The Origin Series : The Birth of Docker

#beginners #devops #opensource #programming

5 min read

Khalid Hussein for Xberg.io

Jun 30

html-to-markdown v3.8.0

#rust #htmltomarkdown #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Jun 30

I tracked which AI models people actually use for a month. The top 5 are all Chinese or open-weight.

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

2 min read

Jun 29

I Was Tired of Downloading the Same npm Packages—So I Built PackVault

#webdev #opensource #npm #web

2 min read

Jun 30

Hublo: a web desktop that runs as your own Unix user over SSH — with a sandboxed app store

#selfhosted #javascript #vue #opensource

1 min read

Chris Lam

Jun 30

How I Built 25 Executable Skills for My AI Agent (and You Can Too)

#agents #ai #automation #opensource

2 min read

Muhammet ŞAFAK

Jun 30

Exposing a CLI as an MCP tool in standard-library Go

#mcp #ai #go #opensource

5 min read

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