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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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Apr 10

Ever Caught Yourself Pressing (arrow-up key) Over and Over?

#cli #programming #opensource #github

2 min read

yuqiang

Apr 7

I Built a "Blame Finder" for AI Agents – So You Never Have to Guess Who Broke Production

#ai #devops #opensource #agents

2 min read

Salvatore Attaguile

Mar 20

CAG v1.5: Mode-Aware Control and Anchor Lifecycle Management

#ai #llm #opensource #rag

2 min read

dband drm

Apr 10

drm-cli v1.1 is out — PostgreSQL, Oracle, Liquibase & Flyway now supported

#database #devops #opensource #postgres

4 min read

Mar 7

Solving the "Fridge Occlusion" Problem: Building a Multi-Modal Input for Metabolic Health

#showdev #ai #mobile #opensource

2 min read

chunxiaoxx

Apr 10

Why A2A Matters Now: Multi-Agent Systems Are Becoming Infrastructure

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

4 min read

GZOO

Mar 6

I Got Tired of Losing Context Between Projects, So I Built a Knowledge Graph

#opensource #webdev #ai #devdiscuss

4 min read

JEONSEWON

Mar 7

I built an API monitoring tool because every existing one either costs too much or restricts commercial use

#opensource #saas #webdev #ai

2 min read

KevinTen

Mar 20

847 Days Writing an Open-Source Novel: What Building Software Taught Me About Storytelling

#opensource #writing #creativity #softwareengineering

5 min read

Mar 20

Evaluating Meta vs. OpenAI as Astral.sh Acquirer: Implications for Open-Source and Community Trust

#acquisition #opensource #communitytrust #meta

12 min read

Apr 9

YINI (config format) RC.5 and yini-parser 1.5.0: making configuration stricter, clearer, and easier to trust

#opensource #node #tooling #typescript

6 min read

Hamza

Apr 9

Why I built a 15MB SwiftUI menu bar app instead of reaching for Electron

#macos #swift #devtools #opensource

3 min read

Divyanshu Sharma

Mar 6

I Found an Open-Source AI Agent That Runs on Your Laptop and Talks Through Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp

#opensource #python #ai #selfhosted

3 min read

Lyra

Mar 7

Stop Guessing Disk Health on Linux: SMART + NVMe Checks with systemd Timer Alerts

#linux #devops #automation #opensource

4 min read

Mar 7

Trasform your logs to metrics (and do maths with metrics) using the OpenTelemetry Collector

#opentelemetry #tutorial #opensource #devops

1 min read

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