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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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Lynkr

Jun 10

How Efficient Model Routing can save upto 80% in AI costs without compromising the quality of the output

#ai #opensource #devops #webdev

6 min read

冉淦元

May 18

Aegis: A Method Pack for More Reliable AI Coding Agents

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

May 17

I deleted 4080 lines and rebuilt from scratch. Here's why call graphs are wrong for AI-generated code.

#showdev #productivity #opensource #tooling

5 min read

Glawk

May 17

Configuration in Go Should Be Typed: Introducing confkit

#go #opensource #programming #productivity

10 min read

Xavi

May 18

How I shipped my first GitHub release (and what I learned)

#beginners #git #python #opensource

3 min read

Jun 10

I built a Kotlin DSL because I couldn't read my own regex anymore

#kotlin #regex #opensource #kmp

3 min read

May 18

Introducing RentWheel — A Smart Vehicle Rental & Booking Platform

#showdev #github #opensource #webdev

2 min read

MrsBotatoPotato

May 17

Symlink races and a client-controlled auth header in OpenClaw

#ai #vulnerabilities #security #opensource

1 min read

dataqbs

May 31

Octorato: an open-source AI agent OS with built-in per-client FinOps

#ai #opensource #agents #devops

3 min read

rock288

May 17

After 5 years of Go services, here's the boilerplate I wish existed

#go #opensource #microservices #observability

8 min read

Jun 9

🚀 From Beginner to Building FuriousCam Pro: An AI-Orchestrated Virtual Webcam Project

#python #opensource #streaming #android

3 min read

May 17

I built Threadbase to give AI coding tools a shared memory inside the repo

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

3 min read

May 31

How to Give Claude Access to Snowflake Without Exposing PII

#dataengineering #ai #opensource #mcp

5 min read

Yahya Tikriti for Vlodia

May 17

Introducing Orveth

#node #typescript #backend #opensource

1 min read

Destawell

May 31

Introducing Destawell — Mobile-First Security Research & Open-Source Tooling

#cybersecurity #android #opensource #ai

2 min read

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