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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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Michael Piscitelli

Mar 17

I Built an Open-Source LLM Harness — AI Agents Interview, Plan, Build & Deploy Entire Apps From One Prompt | Any LLM | CLI

#devtools #agents #ai #opensource

2 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 6

One decorator to make any Python function auditable

#python #tutorial #security #opensource

2 min read

Mar 3

TinyBase, a reactive data store & sync engine

#tinybase #opensource #char #ai

4 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 6

Your MCP servers are unsigned. Here is why that matters.

#ai #security #python #opensource

3 min read

Daniel Roe

Mar 3

The virtuous circle

#opensource

3 min read

Joni Sar

Apr 6

Introducing QueryFlux: Open-Source Universal Multi-Engine Query Router and SQL Proxy

#database #dataengineering #devops #opensource

7 min read

Shubham Agarwal

Mar 3

SkyDiscover: An Open Framework for LLM-Driven Algorithm Discovery

#ai #algorithms #llm #opensource

1 min read

Apr 4

I Read a 1999 Book About How Geniuses Think. Then I Built an AI Framework With a Real Nervous System.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #programming

5 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 6

Your AI agents need audit trails before August 2026. Here is how I added them in 5 lines of Python.

#ai #python #security #opensource

5 min read

Wes

Apr 6

Your Artifact Registry Doesn't Need 2 GB of RAM

#opensource #rust #devops #docker

6 min read

Mar 3

i built a platform where you write a prompt and it ships to production

#opensource #ai #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Whitney for The Apache Software Foundation

Mar 3

Apache Geode 2.0: Revival, Reinvention, and the Road Ahead

#news #database #distributedsystems #opensource

4 min read

SHIBATA Hiroshi

Apr 6

Is Your Ruby Version Still Supported? A Maintainer's Guide to Ruby's Release Cycle

#ruby #programming #opensource #releases

7 min read

Mar 4

Anthropic recognized PostgreSQL backup tool Databasus as a valuable open source project

#database #ai #postgres #opensource

4 min read

Karthick Ajan G S

Apr 6

CipherKit

#showdev #webdev #opensource #security

2 min read

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