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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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Heapstack

Feb 11

FOSDEM 26 - a quick summary

#fosdem #opensource #security

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Ali Abbas

Feb 10

How I Addressed the Real Pain Behind ADRs Enforcement?

#opensource #github #programming #productivity

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Feb 10

Annotate Your Screenshots Without Photoshop

#webdev #documentation #productivity #opensource

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Why Runtime Security Isn't Enough — The Case for Memory Integrity

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

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Anatoly (Vensus)

Feb 10

Build AI-Powered Telegram bots without code: Introducing Coreness

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

6 min read

Alistair

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Calendar Feeds: Where It All Started

#opensource #webdev #javascript #webscraping

4 min read

Feb 10

Top 5 MCP Gateways for Building Production AI Agents

#ai #programming #openai #opensource

4 min read

Feb 10

I shipped an npm package during the Super Bowl by texting my AI agent

#typescript #ai #opensource #soundcloud

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haynajjar

Feb 10

I Built a Free Dataset of 51M+ Companies and Their Tech Stacks (Daily Updates!)

#showdev #opensource #data #api

5 min read

강대중

Feb 10

How We Built an MCP Server So AI Agents Can Manage Client Work

#ai #productivity #saas #opensource

2 min read

James Mok

Feb 10

本地AI编程助手完全指南：零成本打造私有化代码助手

#ai #programming #ollama #opensource

1 min read

Rodrigo

Feb 10

WireGuard no TP-Link Omada ER605: O Guia para criar VPN

#networking #opensource #security #tutorial

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🚀 TensorCircuit-NG: The Universal, Differentiable Quantum Infrastructure

#quantum #ai #opensource #differentiable

3 min read

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Black Hat Europe 2025 Arsenal: 8 AI Security Tools Transforming Cybersecurity

#news #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

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#ai #security #opensource #devtools

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