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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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Jan 24

From Cluster UI to Operational Plane: Lessons from the Kubernetes Dashboard Deprecation

#kubernetes #devops #devtron #opensource

4 min read

Aniket

Feb 28

Building FleetVault — A Clean Multi-User Storage System with PHP & MySQL

#webdev #saas #cloudstorage #opensource

3 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 25

Building Tamper-Proof Media Apps: C2PA vs CPP Deep Dive for Developers

#security #cryptography #ios #opensource

12 min read

Polliog

Jan 23

Self-Hosted Observability: $20/month vs $800/month

#opensource #devops #security #productivity

4 min read

Gus

Feb 27

MCP Has a Supply Chain Problem

#security #ai #opensource #agents

3 min read

Wildan S. Nahar

Feb 28

How I rebuild my hobby project in over 2 weekends with ChatGPT & Claude

#generativeai #opensource #hobby

5 min read

Bonnie for CrossPostr

Feb 24

Building AI Agent With Multiple AI Model Providers Using an LLM Gateway (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini & Bifrost)

#webdev #opensource #programming #tutorial

10 min read

Jan 24

I Built a TUI to Replace `git commit` (and it's written in Go)

#go #git #opensource #productivity

3 min read

jst_kenzo

Jan 25

i accidentally built AGI for $30/month and nobody's ready for this conversation

#ai #opensource #productivity #clawdbot

6 min read

Feb 27

Scanning Your Python AI Agents for EU AI Act Compliance in 10 Seconds

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

4 min read

Feb 27

When More Examples Make Your LLM Worse: Discovering Few-Shot Collapse

#llm #ai #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Feb 16

Why I Stopped Writing Markdown in VS Code (and What I Built Instead) 🚀

#webdev #productivity #markdown #opensource

3 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Feb 27

I built a tool that tells you what developers are actually learning — not just Twitter hype

#python #opensource #programming #productivity

2 min read

Simon

Feb 27

The GUI Agent Living in Your Web Page

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Trần Hoàng Tú

Feb 27

I built the missing package manager for MCP servers

#mcp #opensource #typescript #cli

2 min read

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