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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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Divyanshu Sharma

Mar 6

I Found an Open-Source AI Agent That Runs on Your Laptop and Talks Through Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp

#opensource #python #ai #selfhosted

3 min read

Will badr

Mar 7

I Built a Database That Never Forgets — Here's Why

#rust #database #sql #opensource

14 min read

WonderLab

Mar 7

OpenClaw Deep Dive (7): Security Model and Sandbox

#openclaw #opensource #docker #architecture

8 min read

Mar 7

Trasform your logs to metrics (and do maths with metrics) using the OpenTelemetry Collector

#opentelemetry #tutorial #opensource #devops

1 min read

Mar 8

I built a simple guide/spotlight tool for complex web apps (open source)

#opensource #ui #webdev #react

2 min read

Mar 7

I Built CrowEnv: An Encrypted Replacement for .env Files

#webdev #opensource #security #typescript

5 min read

Mar 7

Someone Has Been Polling My API Spec Every 10 Minutes for 26 Hours

#api #webdev #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Mar 6

Navidrome vs Plex for Music: Which Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Mar 7

I Built a Production-Ready Rust Web API Starter Kit (axum-starter)

#rust #webdev #backend #opensource

2 min read

Kuro

Mar 8

The Lock Breaks Downward

#ai #opensource #security #softwareengineering

5 min read

Mar 8

I Built a Desktop Tamagotchi Cat with AI Brain in Swift - and It Lives on My macOS Doc

#showdev #swift #ai #opensource

2 min read

Kai

Mar 7

We shipped a unified Activity feed API for AI agent teams — here's why visibility matters more than velocity

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

2 min read

Mar 6

Finding Dependency Confusion Vulnerabilities in Public GitHub Repositories

#security #cybersecurity #bugbounty #opensource

4 min read

Mar 6

Navidrome vs Emby: Which Music Server Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Nikolaos Protopapas

Mar 6

Building Terminal UIs in .NET: How SharpConsoleUI Complements Terminal.Gui

#dotnet #csharp #terminal #opensource

5 min read

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