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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

Ryan Swift

May 6

Mac-Only? Just Fork It

#agents #linux #ai #opensource

5 min read

May 7

The Story Behind GoWatcher: A Tale of F5 Fatigue and Code Flow

#opensource #go #developer

3 min read

May 7

Building SwiftDeploy: A Self-Writing Infrastructure Tool with OPA Policy Enforcement and Prometheus Observability

#devops #docker #python #opensource

7 min read

May 7

I built a free open-source LocalStack alternative in Go — v0.7.0 is out

#go #aws #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Kouamé Maïzan Alain Serge Kossonou

May 7

Capturer la décision à l'instant du commit, ou la perdre à jamais

#showdev #documentation #git #opensource

8 min read

Yash Kumar Saini

May 7

Dev Log #5 Building a Claude-style SRE terminal and tackling WebRTC

#python #typescript #opensource #backend

5 min read

Kouamé Maïzan Alain Serge Kossonou

May 7

Capture the decision at commit-time, or lose it forever

#showdev #documentation #opensource #git

7 min read

May 7

The Connector Graveyard: What Multi-Model Pipeline Code Actually Looks Like.

#ai #python #opensource #devops

7 min read

Marco Allegretti

May 7

SHIFT: How a Shell Becomes Convergent

#linux #mobile #cpp #opensource

5 min read

Vilius

May 7

Every Agent I Delegated To Kept Failing. I Finally Checked the Model.

#ai #agents #devops #opensource

2 min read

May 7

I Built Failure Intelligence Engine: An Open Source Guardrail for LLM Hallucinations and Prompt Attacks with real time diagnosis.

#articles #ai #security #opensource

9 min read

Akshay

May 7

I Built a Free Privacy-Focused Bulk Image Compressor That Runs Entirely in Your Browser

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Wannavf

May 7

My MCP Tools Broke Silently; So I Built a Lockfile for MCP

#ai #mcp #devtools #opensource

1 min read

May 7

Introducing MarwaPHP: An AI-Native PHP Framework for Modern Web Applications

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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