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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 16

Note Taking

#opensource #productivity #resources #tooling

8 min read

suresh peddinti

Mar 16

Building a Rate Limiting As A Service: Across Modern Systems Rate Limiter

#architecture #monitoring #opensource #sre

3 min read

Zastinian

Mar 16

Hedystia 2.0: A New Type-Safe ORM for TypeScript with Multi-Database Support

#typescript #database #orm #opensource

3 min read

Roman

Feb 10

OpenVerb: The Missing Action Layer in the AI Stack

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 5

I Built the Missing Layer Between A2A and MCP — Here's How NEXUS Coordinates AI Agents

#a2a #mcp #agents #opensource

3 min read

Marko

Feb 10

Spring CRUD Generator v1.1.0: Field Validation, Better Redis Caching & Spring Boot 3/4 Compatibility

#springboot #opensource #webdev #redis

2 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Feb 9

Build a production-ready SaaS app (that will scale!)

#node #opensource #webdev #programming

5 min read

Mar 16

Photo Management

#ai #opensource #productivity #software

9 min read

Feb 10

Exploring What Happens When AI Becomes Your Creative Team

#agents #ai #opensource #sideprojects

10 min read

Mohith Karthikeya

Feb 24

How to Detect Prompt Injection in Multi-Agent Systems (LangGraph Example)

#ai #opensource #langchain #learning

4 min read

Riccardo Tartaglia

Mar 13

Why We Need a Standard Language for Agentic Workflows (And Why I Built One)

#ai #agents #tooling #opensource

7 min read

Mar 16

I Tried CachyOS and Now I Can't Stop Booting Into It

#linux #archlinux #kde #opensource

5 min read

Mar 16

Stop Writing Micrometer Boilerplate in Spring Boot

#micrometer #spring #java #opensource

2 min read

Feb 10

Actionbase for Postgres/MySQL: When Likes, Views and Follows Stop Scaling

#opensource #database #distributed #architecture

2 min read

Feb 10

How We Built Server-Side Video Trimming With ffmpeg

#webdev #go #react #opensource

6 min read

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