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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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EBINESH M

Mar 9

Model Context Protocol (MCP): What You Need to Know

#mcp #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Feb 28

Demystifying 18TB+ HDD Reliability: RV Sensors vs. OEM Data Sheets

#data #opensource #sre #testing

1 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 23

The Comprehensive Guide to OTel Collector Contrib

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tutorial

12 min read

Chung Ho

Mar 6

Building Stdout: A Local-First Developer Toolkit for Privacy-Focused Workflows

#productivity #opensource #tooling #formatter

4 min read

Mar 9

I Built a React Library That Looks Like It Was Scribbled in a Notebook

#react #webcomponents #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Feb 22

I'm Open-Sourcing My Claude Code Toolkit - Separate Your Execution Layer from Your Intelligence Layer

#opensource #ai #programming #devtools

1 min read

Mar 29

AGI Won't Live in a Datacenter

#ai #opensource #webassembly #distributedsystems

6 min read

Mingi Choe

Feb 23

I built a plugin-based web metadata scraper with MCP server support

#typescript #opensource #ai #webdev

3 min read

Jean-Christophe Viau

Feb 23

LLM Crawlers Are Wasting 95% of Every Web Request. Here's the Fix.

#llm #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Hoài Nhớ ( Nick )

Feb 23

Your Error Dashboard Is Lying to You — Here's What It's Not Showing

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Jit Chakraborty

Mar 18

How EchoId Actually Handles Privacy

#privacy #buildinpublic #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Lars

Feb 23

Bmalph: BMAD planning + Ralph autonomous loop, glued together in one command

#ai #opensource #devtools #productivity

4 min read

Waclaw Kusnierczyk

Feb 23

aigent: toolchain for AI agent skills

#ai #rust #opensource #cli

4 min read

Артем Марченко

Feb 23

How I Built an E2E Encrypted File Transfer in Python — and What Came Out of It

#python #security #opensource #encryption

4 min read

Feb 27

Showcase Your Credly Certifications in Your GitHub README

#credly #webdev #github #opensource

2 min read

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