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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 28

Langfuse Has a Free API: The Open-Source LLM Observability Platform That Tracks Every Token, Prompt, and Cost of Your AI App

#ai #api #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Vladimir Iglovikov

Mar 28

Designing Image Augmentation Pipelines for Generalization

#deeplearning #opensource #computervision #albumentations

55 min read

Feb 22

Stop flying blind with SLED, use Sledoview

#rust #cli #database #opensource

2 min read

Dongha Koo

Mar 24

Your AI Agent Can Be Hijacked With 3 Lines of JSON

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

Feb 21

OpenClaw Is Unsafe By Design

#security #ai #agents #opensource

5 min read

fromthearchitect

Mar 28

The AI Pair Programmer: Why the Human Loop Is About Partnership, Not Review

#ai #opensource #agile #programming

13 min read

Mar 28

Windmill Has a Free API: The Open-Source Retool Alternative That Turns Scripts Into Internal Tools, Workflows, and APIs

#webdev #api #opensource #programming

3 min read

Mar 28

Cedar Has a Free API: Amazon's Authorization Language That Makes Access Control Actually Readable

#webdev #api #opensource #aws

3 min read

Mar 28

Zellij Has a Free Terminal Multiplexer: The Modern tmux Alternative With Built-In Layouts, Plugin System, and Session Management

#terminal #rust #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Feb 22

How ClawMoat Would Have Prevented ClawHavoc: A Technical Case Study

#security #opensource #ai #cybersecurity

5 min read

Mar 28

Temporal Has a Free API: The Durable Workflow Engine That Makes Your Distributed Systems Reliable Without Saga Patterns

#webdev #api #opensource #programming

3 min read

Feb 22

I Gave My AI Agent Shell Access. Here's Every Command It Ran

#ai #security #opensource #devops

5 min read

Feb 22

MCP Security: The Missing Layer

#ai #security #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Feb 20

I Built a Drum Tuner That Vibrates When You’re Out of Tune

#opensource #javascript #a11y #webaudio

2 min read

Mar 28

Sonic Has a Free API: Add Lightning-Fast Full-Text Search to Your App Without Running Elasticsearch

#webdev #api #opensource #rust

3 min read

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