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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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Mar 2

VS Code Weekly: The Browser Just Joined Your Agent Team

#devex #ai #opensource #vscode

4 min read

Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Shekade

Mar 1

How I Built a Centralized Monitoring System for 600–700 Servers — Using Open Source Tools

#aws #devops #monitoring #opensource

3 min read

WonderLab

Mar 1

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 2): Remotion - Create Videos Programmatically with React

#opensource #ai

7 min read

Mar 5

How to Control AI Agent API Costs: Rate Limiting vs Economic Firewalls

#ai #api #security #opensource

3 min read

Brandon

Mar 1

Unveiling a World-Class Othello AI: A Hybrid PyTorch & Edax Architecture

#othello #ai #dualist #opensource

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Mar 1

Soulprint v0.6.0: We Removed libp2p and the Network Got Better

#ai #blockchain #opensource #node

1 min read

Shiv Kumar Mishra

Mar 1

Memopt++:Adaptive Linux Memory Governor (C++)

#webdev #opensource #ai #programming

1 min read

Helpando Zendesk Migration

Mar 1

Automating Zendesk Workflows with n8n: Zero-Code AI Agents for Support Teams

#ai #automation #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 1

NIST Is Standardizing AI Agent Security — ClawMoat Already Ships It

#security #ai #opensource #standards

5 min read

bada

Mar 1

I Built a macOS App to Stop Links From Opening in the Wrong Chrome Profile

#showdev #productivity #opensource #automation

2 min read

Cesar Menegatti

Mar 1

Stop Writing Date Helpers in Go: Introducing go-date-fns

#go #opensource #programming #development

3 min read

Mar 5

How to Convert Markdown to PDF in React Native (The Easy Way)

#reactnative #javascript #opensource #expo

5 min read

Andrew Jewell Sr

Feb 28

Why I Built a Multi-Paradigm Database in Rust — And Deployed It on 50+ Raspberry Pis

#rust #database #opensource #iot

15 min read

Mar 1

I Built a Multi-Tenant CRM with PostgreSQL Row-Level Security — Here's What I Learned

#django #opensource #webdev #crm

7 min read

BEDANTA CHATTERJEE

Mar 1

I Built a Real-Time Vision AI Agent

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

1 min read

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