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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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sunyifu

Mar 12

How I Cut My AI Agent's API Bill by 60% — Without Losing Quality

#ai #opensource #openclaw #selfhosted

5 min read

zaxion

Mar 12

Policy-as-Code vs. LLM Agents: A Benchmark You Need to See

#discuss #opensource #devops #productivity

3 min read

Mar 12

One request looks clean. Five requests leak your AWS key.

#security #ai #opensource #devops

5 min read

Valery Zinchenko

Mar 7

I overpowered AI by inventing "Brilliant" code by AI opinion itself

#webdev #ai #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Feb 6

OpenAI Just Got "Swarmed": Kimi k2.5 and the Death of the Single Agent

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #futureoftech

3 min read

Shane Ho

Mar 11

Why LLMs Suck at Calling APIs — And How Flat Schemas Fix It

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Daniel Skov Jacobsen

Feb 5

I built an Open-Source CLI that stops your AI terminal from leaking secrets

#ai #security #opensource #cli

4 min read

Mar 1

Stop Using QR Codes That Expire — Build Permanent, Branded QR Codes for Free

#webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

David Evdoshchenko

Mar 11

I had to build my own Symfony validation bundle because no existing one fits my requirements

#opensource #symfony #productivity #api

6 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Feb 6

A Product Page Erased $285 Billion. Here's What the Audit Trail Should Have Captured.

#fintech #cryptography #veritaschain #opensource

8 min read

Mar 11

Why Your Kafka Consumers Are Suddenly 10x Slower in v3.9.0

#kafka #java #opensource

4 min read

Mar 11

dirham: The UAE Dirham Symbol (U+20C3) as Web Font, CSS Utility & React Component

#react #typescript #opensource #unicode

2 min read

Seryl Lns

Mar 11

Building a Rails Engine #10 -- Controllers & Routing in a Rails Engine

#rails #ruby #webdev #opensource

10 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Mar 11

How to add AI to your App in 5 minutes

#ai #opensource #tutorial #programming

10 min read

Mar 11

Your .env Files Are a Security Incident Waiting to Happen

#devops #security #opensource #typescript

3 min read

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