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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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dudiew

Mar 9

I built a self-hosted daily monitoring bot for Render + Supabase (open source)

#opensource #node

1 min read

Mar 9

sniptt/guards, a comprehensive collection of type guards for TypeScript.

#opensource #guard #typescript #snippt

3 min read

Project-aware history and pattern learning

Apr 8

I Was Tired of My Terminal Being Dumb — So I Built Termim

#programming #cli #opensource #github

2 min read

Polliog

Apr 11

Logtide 0.9.0: Custom Dashboards, Health Monitoring, and Log Parsing Pipelines

#discuss #opensource #devops #monitoring

7 min read

Techfred

Mar 13

Giving AI Hands: Introducing the Open Agent Hardware Layer (OAHL) 🤖🦾

#ai #opensource

3 min read

Mar 13

How I Used One AI to Build Another: A Local AI Code Review Pipeline (For Free)🤖

#devops #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 9

PhotoPrism vs LibrePhotos: Which Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

5 min read

Mar 10

Why AI Agent Payments Need Open-Source Rails

#ai #blockchain #payments #opensource

4 min read

Kevin

Mar 9

This Week in AI: Pentagon Wars, GPT-5.4, and Why 90% Reliability Will Get You Fired

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

6 min read

angufibo lincoln

Mar 7

Introducing FlameIQ — Deterministic Performance Regression Detection for Python

#cicd #opensource #performance #python

3 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 10

The 600x LLM Price Gap Is Your Biggest Optimization Opportunity

#llm #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Gotham64

Mar 9

The Foreman Protocol: How OpenPawz gives AI agents bidirectional access to community driven services

#ai #mcp #agents #opensource

7 min read

LinChuang

Mar 9

Alert Fatigue Is Real — Here's What It's Actually Costing Your Team

#devops #monitoring #sre #opensource

5 min read

Mar 9

I got frustrated my AI kept forgetting me so I spent 6 months building a fix

#machinelearning #opensource #agents #python

2 min read

Mar 22

I Built an Open-Source Tool That Turns Any REST API into an MCP Server — No Code Required

#showdev #ai #opensource #mcp

6 min read

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