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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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May 29

I built an open-source tool that reverse-engineers any GitHub repo in 10 seconds

#opensource #webdev #beginners #javascript

3 min read

Mohammed Muzamil C

May 29

How We Built EduSathi, An Open-Source AI Learning Platform Using Streamlit, LangChain and FAISS

#ai #python #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Qimin Zhao

May 29

How to triage a suspected WebShell without giving AI a shell

#incidentresponse #security #linux #opensource

3 min read

May 29

CachyOS Wouldn't Install and My NVMe Was the Problem (Corrupted GPT + chwd Fix)

#archlinux #devops #opensource #cachyos

2 min read

May 29

Catching CMS bugs before deploy in Next.js

#nextjs #cms #webdev #opensource

2 min read

ur-grue

May 29

FOIA letters are a format, not a vibe — so I made Claude write them properly

#journalism #ai #foia #opensource

2 min read

Qimin Zhao

May 29

What safety boundary should an AI incident investigation tool have?

#incidentresponse #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

Qimin Zhao

May 29

How to investigate a suspicious IP on a Linux server with read-only evidence

#incidentresponse #linux #security #opensource

3 min read

Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

May 29

ONLYOFFICE releases API 9.4, giving developers deeper control over document workflows

#news #api #onlyoffice #opensource

4 min read

Djowda for Djowda

May 30

The First Break on the Walled Garden — Rethinking e-Food Delivery as an Open Protocol

#grpc #opensource #foodtech #distributedsystems

4 min read

Jimmy Guerrero for Voxel51

May 29

June 9 - Visual AI in Healthcare: Ground Truth in the Foundation-Model Era

#ai #computervision #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

May 29

What I learned from my first AI-assisted bug bounty submissions

#security #opensource #bugbounty #ai

4 min read

Abdu El

May 28

You vibe code. Aigent.ly handles the vulnerabilities.

#opensource #ai #webdev #security

1 min read

May 29

Free Model Providers to Use with Hermes Agent

#ai #agents #opensource #llm

4 min read

May 30

Fine-Tuning Qwen2.5-0.5B to Write SRE Post-Mortem Summaries

#python #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

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