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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 2

I Reviewed 23 Crypto Bounty Programs So You Don't Have To

#crypto #opensource #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Alberto Daniel Badia

Mar 3

Semantic Invalidation That Doesn't Suck

#python #opensource #rust #webdev

3 min read

Sergey Boyarchuk

Mar 22

Experienced Developer Struggles to Land Job Despite Open-Source Success; Seeks Solutions Amid Financial Strain

#rust #opensource #hiring #systemsprogramming

9 min read

David

Apr 2

The All-in-One Local AI App: Chat + Images + Video Without the Cloud

#ai #opensource #privacy #selfhosted

7 min read

Apr 2

I Built a Visual Flow Engine in Rust to Replace Node-RED and n8n

#rust #opensource #programming #webdev

3 min read

Ananya for OWASP BLT

Apr 1

🎉First PR? Get paid for it

#100daysofcode #github #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Yanko Alexandrov

Feb 27

I Built a 15W Always-On AI Assistant Box — Here's What I Learned

#ai #selfhosted #jetson #opensource

2 min read

Clef.sh

Apr 2

I Was Tired of Paying $0.40/Secret/Month, So I spent a month building a CLI tool to manage it.

#webdev #aws #security #opensource

3 min read

Apr 2

I open sourced a production MLOps pipeline. Here is what it took to get it to PyPI and Hugging Face in one day.

#mlops #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Kernel-level sandboxing without Docker or VMs

Wes

Mar 30

The Blackwall Between Your AI Agent and Your Filesystem

#opensource #security #go #ai

6 min read

Mar 13

Most grids are static. I built one that isn't.

#react #webdev #opensource #frontend

1 min read

willamhou

Apr 2

How I Built Cryptographic Signing for Every AI Agent Tool Call

#ai #security #opensource #rust

5 min read

Stephen McCullough

Apr 1

Maintaining Open Source in the AI Era

#opensource #ai #ruby #python

6 min read

Timmothy

Apr 2

I Built a CLI That Finds Paid Open-Source Bounties on GitHub

#opensource #github #cli #typescript

2 min read

Claude

Apr 1

I Built a Security Scanner Because 12% of an AI Agent Marketplace Was Malicious

#ai #security #python #opensource

5 min read

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