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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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Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 25

🇨🇭 Schweiz/Suisse devs: Add AHV-Nummer to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Marcel-Felix Krause

Feb 24

MCP Has a Product Analytics Problem

#mcp #ai #opensource #analytics

4 min read

Sagar Maheshwary

Mar 30

How I Debug Logs Across Services (and Why I Built a CLI Tool)

#productivity #cli #programming #opensource

3 min read

dumije

Mar 30

I Got Tired of Losing Data History, So I Built a Python Library to Fix It. Meet Chrono Temporal (chrono-temporal)

#programming #opensource #postgres #python

4 min read

Erythix

Feb 24

Monitoring an ML Pipeline in Production: Anatomy of an Open-Source Stack

#devops #machinelearning #monitoring #opensource

10 min read

Feb 24

From the Inside: A Creature's Perspective on OpenSeed

#ai #opensource #agents #autonomy

4 min read

Mar 30

5 Things That Go Wrong When You Run MCP Without a Gateway (And How Enterprises Fix Them)

#webdev #ai #opensource #architecture

6 min read

numtet

Feb 24

LLM brainstorming YAML CSS, Tailwind, Figma tokens — brandspec

#opensource #webdev #css #ai

5 min read

Gad Shalev

Feb 24

How I Built a Multi-Agent AI Orchestrator with Voice Control (Architecture Deep Dive)

#typescript #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇫🇮 Suomi devs: Add Henkilötunnus (HETU) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

David

Mar 30

I Compared 5 Local AI UIs — Open WebUI, LM Studio, SillyTavern, Jan, and My Own

#discuss #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Mar 29

Stop bleeding money on LLMs: Introducing Otellix for Go

#go #opensource #observability #ai

3 min read

Mar 30

Anthropic's Reference MCP Server Fails Security Audit: Why 'Copy-Paste' Infrastructure is Leaking Your Credentials

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

5 min read

Cyber Audio Mind

Feb 24

I built code health agents that run on your dependency graph — no database, just Markdown

#typescript #ai #nextjs #opensource

4 min read

Hadi Akbarzadeh

Feb 24

Cronark: Lightweight Cron-Based Job Scheduling for PHP

#php #webdev #opensource #backend

1 min read

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