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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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Sriram Rajendran

Mar 30

Running Grafana Loki in Production: What We Actually Learned

#logging #devops #opensource #architecture

17 min read

NocoBase

Mar 30

Not Just PostgreSQL: Comparing 5 No-Code/Low-Code Platforms with External Database Support

#ai #opensource #nocode #postgressql

13 min read

David

Apr 3

Building Real-Time A/B Model Comparison with Parallel Async Streams in TypeScript

#typescript #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

Gingiris

Mar 30

GitHub Stars History: How to Track and Analyze Repository Growth

#github #opensource #analytics #growth

2 min read

David

Apr 3

Making Local LLMs Use Tools — Even When They Weren't Designed For It

#ai #typescript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

AKAVLABS

Mar 31

I mapped all 84 MITRE ATLAS techniques to AI agent detection rules — here's what I found

#security #ai #agents #opensource

1 min read

Ray

Mar 30

"5 Python Libraries That Power My Self-Hosted Billing Monitor"

#python #stripe #opensource #selfhosted

4 min read

VC-code-project

Mar 30

I built a free AI prompt API with 185 expert roles and MCP support

#ai #api #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Apr 1

Authorizer v2 Is Here: Self-Hosted Auth, Rebuilt From the Ground Up

#webdev #ai #opensource #authentication

6 min read

Mar 30

We built ATTP -- HTTP for AI agents. Here's why.

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 30

I maintained deployment bash scripts for 10 years. Then I rewrote everything in Go.

#devops #opensource #go #automation

3 min read

Mar 31

The Claude Code Leak Proved What We've Been Building For

#ai #python #security #opensource

3 min read

Mar 30

OpenClaw Hit 250K GitHub Stars in 60 Days. Jensen Huang Called It 'The Next ChatGPT.' Here's What That Actually Means for Developers.

#ai #opensource #devtools #automation

5 min read

kollaikal-rupesh

Mar 30

Hardening Pipecat: A Month of Fixing What Matters

#python #webdev #ai #opensource

7 min read

Mar 30

I built an open-source SIP Phone with real-time AI Text-to-Speech to help a friend with speech difficulties 🎙️

#opensource #cpp #a11y #ai

2 min read

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