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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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sentinel-safety

Apr 26

Add Child Safety to Your Platform in 30 Minutes: A SENTINEL Integration Guide

#tutorial #security #opensource #docker

5 min read

Apr 26

The Bug That Silently Broke My Entire Blockchain How a single function rejected "trailing bytes" and made every block commit with zero transactions

#ai #programming #opensource #blockchain

3 min read

SoloCFO

Apr 26

My financial advisor doesn't know I bought NVDA yesterday. My AI agent does.

#claude #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

May 19

Stop Building Stateless Wrappers: A Pragmatic Deep Dive Into Hermes Agent

#hermesagentchallenge #devchallenge #agents #opensource

7 min read

Lyra

Apr 26

Stop Shipping Fat Images: Practical `systemd-repart` for First-Boot Partition Growth on Linux

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

Mininglamp

May 19

Three Open-Source Projects That Turn Your Mac Into a Private AI Workstation

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #apple

7 min read

May 7

Why agents need workbook APIs instead of spreadsheet screenshots

#typescript #node #opensource #ai

4 min read

Ilbets

Apr 26

Supervise a multi-agent setup with Local LLMs

#ai #llm #opensource #agents

1 min read

Alexander Paris

Apr 30

LLM-as-judge is not a security layer for AI agents – here's why and what we built

#ai #webdev #security #opensource

2 min read

FabIAlista

Apr 26

How I built a Brazilian price comparator with AI across 6 retailers (and 9000+ products)

#showdev #ai #ecommerce #opensource

3 min read

Muhammad Subhan Naeem

Apr 30

I Built a Free Quran Web App with the SERN Stack — Here's What I Learned

#webdev #react #opensource #programming

3 min read

Steven A. Mullins Jr.

Apr 25

Confident and Wrong: We Tested 17 AI Models on Questions a Middle Schooler Could Answer

#ai #llm #opensource #testing

5 min read

May 9

Cloud Embeddings vs. Local Sovereign Memory: AI Agent Memory Layer Compared (2026)

#ai #vectordatabase #opensource #database

12 min read

Maintainer insights on CI/CD and linting

May 26

SchemaSpy vs SchemaCrawler - Which Database Documentation Tool is Right for You?

#database #devops #sql #opensource

3 min read

Het Dave

Apr 27

Introducing CarverJS

#webdev #gamedev #react #opensource

9 min read

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