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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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Ivan

May 28

I built an open-source repo-local context layer for AI coding agents

#opensource #ai #devops #programming

3 min read

The Hive Collective

May 28

Wire a Cloudflare Workers agent into a shared knowledge base in 40 lines

#cloudflare #ai #agents #opensource

6 min read

Kleetus MacTavish

May 24

Domain-Based C++ Logging With Nova

#cpp #opensource #logging

4 min read

May 24

How to Check If Your Email Is Protected with SPF, DKIM and DMARC

#security #webdev #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Megha mukherjee

May 28

Open-Source A3M Router Tops RouterArena Benchmark

#opensource #llm #benchmark #ai

1 min read

BrewHubPHL

May 24

Don't Trust Your LLM's Safety Promises Across Runtimes

#ai #productivity #opensource #architecture

6 min read

scroll

May 28

I built the most feature-complete React Native drum picker — native Fabric, 10+ features, zero compromises

#reactnative #javascript #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Praveen

May 24

Why AI provenance tools fail when their layers disagree

#ai #devops #opensource #security

2 min read

May 28

I built a modular Task Manager in Vanilla JS (Looking for contributors!)

#javascript #opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

May 28

31 free developer tools — no signup, nothing stored

#webdev #opensource #devtools #beginners

1 min read

vigneshwar

May 24

I lost 3 enterprise clients in one night because of a GitHub repo. So I built a tool to make sure it never happens again.

#github #opensource #webdev #react

5 min read

May 24

How I Unified 14+ AI Models Behind One OpenAI-Compatible API

#ai #llm #python #opensource

2 min read

Obot AI

May 28

Hello from us at Obot AI!

#mcp #ai #agentskills #opensource

2 min read

Peter H. Boling

May 24

yard-timekeeper: Stop YARD Timestamp Churn in Checked-In Docs

#ruby #rubygem #yard #opensource

2 min read

Ivan 'w1ldy0uth' Shurygin

May 28

From a Friend's Suggestion to My First Open-Source Tool

#network #python #security #opensource

3 min read

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