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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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Jagadesh Padimala

Feb 7

I Built 66+ Free Browser Tools That Never Upload Your Files

#webdev #opensource #javascript #webassembly

2 min read

Yuchen Lin

Feb 6

Designing a Drift-Resistant Memory System for LLMs

#ai #opensource #systemdesign #webdev

3 min read

Feb 11

Title: Hardening Open Source Apps: Preventing Stored XSS in User-Injected Code

#javascript #opensource #security #webdev

2 min read

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VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Feb 7

Building a 200ms Provenance Gate: Inside CPP v1.5's Pre-Publish Verification Extension

#verasnap #cpp #security #opensource

17 min read

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khanmjk

Feb 8

I built a “Steam Workshop” for system architecture + product roadmaps + org blueprints (runs in your browser)"

#opensource #architecture #productmanagement #ai

3 min read

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Feb 7

How I built an RAG engine for Singapore Laws

#discuss #ai #opensource #devops

2 min read

mkmkkkkk

Feb 7

x402 vs ACP vs AP2: Why your AI agent needs a payment control plane

#ai #payments #opensource #security

10 min read

Gus

Mar 1

The Promptware Kill Chain: Prompt Injection Is Just the Door. Here's the Full Attack.

#security #ai #opensource #agents

12 min read

Hoang Le

Feb 6

🚀 Calling Laravel Developers — Let’s Build a Clean, Extensible ERP (and AI Agents)

#architecture #laravel #opensource #php

2 min read

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VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Feb 7

CAP-SRP: Building a Cryptographic Flight Recorder for AI Content Refusals — A Complete Implementation Guide

#cap #veritaschain #ai #opensource

32 min read

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Amad

Feb 6

Your AI agent just did 5 things. Can you prove it?

#ai #opensource #compliance #euaiact

3 min read

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zhenghaoz

Feb 6

Building a Recommender System for GitHub Repositories

#ai #github #opensource

5 min read

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Mar 1

I Reviewed My Own Code Like I Was Trying to Break It

#opensource #security #webdev #buildinpublic

6 min read

Feb 6

🚀 Bullstudio — A Prisma-Studio-Style Dashboard for BullMQ You Can Run in Seconds

#showdev #monitoring #node #opensource

3 min read

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Hcan

Feb 26

I Had an AI Agent Build Me a Full App. 46K Lines of Code, 3 Platforms, Zero Dart Knowledge

#showdev #ai #opensource #flutter

6 min read

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