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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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Jun 9

I built A-Society: structure for how AI agents work on a project

#showdev #ai #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Jun 9

Why CRUD Is Not Enough for Serious Business Apps

#dotnet #postgres #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Sujan Lamichhane

Jun 13

I Built an Open-Source Java Library for Khalti, eSewa, ConnectIPS & Fonepay — Spring Boot 3 and 4 Supported

#java #springboot #nepal #opensource

4 min read

Jun 9

We need a deterministic Governance Layer for AI coding Agents

#ai #opensource #architecture #devops

3 min read

Oleksandr Zhyhalo

Jun 9

I built a self-hosted log search tool for my team

#showdev #opensource #devops #monitoring

2 min read

chowyu

Jun 9

AIClaw v1.10.5: Configurable Web Search for Tool-Using Agents

#ai #opensource #webdev #agents

3 min read

Jun 9

How to Publish an MCP Server to PyPI — Two Methods (Token vs OIDC)

#mcp #python #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

SickleFire

Jun 9

Visualizing the Slope: Introducing the m-vis Real-Time Leak Delta Chart

#rust #performance #cli #opensource

2 min read

Sarah-Anne Ndlovu

Jun 9

Building DiamondScope: reverse-engineering South African diamond pricing in TypeScript

#typescript #opensource #calculator #javascript

3 min read

Jeffrey Nwankwo

Jun 9

We built a public registry and SDK for WebMCP tools. Here's why it matters.

#webmcp #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Kazu

Jun 9

"Renaming `user` when grep can't tell which model you mean"

#django #python #database #opensource

11 min read

Jun 9

# go-intake: Go-Native Streaming Data Ingestion Toolkit

#etl #dataengineering #go #opensource

3 min read

Oluwajuwon Omotayo

Jun 13

Your Project Board Looks Fine. So, Why Do You Keep Missing Deadlines? I Built Cadence to Find Out.

#opensource #typescript #devops #productivity

8 min read

Jun 10

4 years in ecommerce infrastructure. Here are the problems I'm building open source tools to solve.

#api #opensource #backend #webdev

2 min read

Siddharth Pandey

Jun 13

Why Infrawise Uses Deterministic Analysis Instead of an LLM

#opensource #typescript #aws #ai

5 min read

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