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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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Max

May 26

I Built a Free Client-Side Image Compressor (No Upload, Works Offline)

#webdev #javascript #tools #opensource

1 min read

monkeymore studio

May 13

The Story of VLC: How a Traffic Cone Took Over the World

#networking #opensource #software

12 min read

knspar

May 12

🧅 Arti: Why Tor’s Rust Rewrite Continues to Excite (and the Challenges Ahead)

#rust #tor #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Fayaz Bin Salam

May 12

I built MacJuiceMonitor — a free macOS menu bar app for Bluetooth device battery levels

#macos #electron #typescript #opensource

2 min read

May 26

Fixing a Frustrating Bug in LiteLLM Guardrails

#llm #opensource #python #security

1 min read

May 26

I Found SSL Validation Completely Disabled in an Open-Source Financial App — Here's How It Works

#android #security #opensource #mobile

5 min read

Genesis

May 26

The Wiring #002 — the agent isn't the product either

#ai #agents #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

May 12

Filing my first security advisory

#security #rust #opensource #dependabot

8 min read

Souptik Chakraborty

May 12

ML fraud detection platform using AI agents

#ai #beginners #opensource

7 min read

Trương Minh Sơn

May 12

# Building a Full Evaluation and Guardrail System for a RAG App

#ai #productivity #python #opensource

3 min read

May 12

Capture and Replay: Testing Security Policy Without Production Risk

#security #ai #opensource #devops

8 min read

𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻

May 26

Cabal for Android: My First Native Kotlin P2P Chat App Reaches Its First Early Version

#kotlin #android #opensource #p2p

4 min read

ndmt1at21

May 26

A Go outbox library that runs inside your own DB transaction

#go #postgres #microservices #opensource

7 min read

May 12

The hard part of AI agents is not building one. It is operating five.

#devops #agents #opensource #ai

3 min read

Vilius

May 12

Building Is Hard. Reaching Out Is Harder.

#ai #agents #opensource #community

1 min read

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