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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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Levi

Apr 11

I converted 10 popular APIs to MCP tools. 7 would let an agent delete your data with zero guardrails.

#mcp #ai #opensource #security

3 min read

Bojan Josifoski

May 15

How I Built a Programmatic Video Engine for SaaS Product Demos

#webdev #react #opensource

5 min read

LERUfic

Apr 11

Stop Blind-CURLing in Production: How I Built an Audit Layer for API Operations

#devops #security #opensource #api

3 min read

milad

May 15

Web Security Analyzer Pro v3.0 — I built 49 security modules, but I need your help

#showdev #opensource #security #sideprojects

2 min read

Soleiman Mansouri

May 4

I Built a Debugging Memory for AI Coding Agents — Here's the System Behind It

#ai #opensource

9 min read

Lyra

Apr 11

Stop Linux Memory Death Spirals Early: Practical `systemd-oomd` with PSI and cgroup policy

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

Rotifer Protocol

May 15

Why the AI Age Needs an Open Protocol

#ai #opensource #protocol #agents

8 min read

Bibin Babu Skaria

Apr 11

Jenkins Cloud Native ECS repo (open-source)

#showdev #aws #devops #opensource

1 min read

Guard Calf

Apr 11

WSL Dashboard v0.6.0: The Ultimate WSL Management Tool for Developers

#linux #opensource #rust #wsl2

3 min read

Neha Setia for Extract by Zyte

Apr 11

What the Scrapy Maintainer Thinks About AI-Generated Scrapers

#ai #opensource #claude #webscraping

2 min read

LeeTaihe

Apr 11

How I Built a Design Review Tool for AI-Generated Frontends

#ai #frontend #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Archrad

Apr 11

Detecting architecture drift during system design

#architecture #opensource #ai #enterprise

2 min read

Levi

Apr 11

I got tired of hand-wiring agent tools, so I built an OpenAPI MCP converter

#ai #opensource #webdev #tooling

3 min read

Mukunda Rao Katta

May 15

Why I refused to build a Dreaming clone for OSS Claude

#opensource #llm #agents #ai

5 min read

Brian Oiko

Apr 15

From Confused to Confident: My Outreachy Contribution Experience

#beginners #codenewbie #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

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