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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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LERUfic

Apr 11

Stop Blind-CURLing in Production: How I Built an Audit Layer for API Operations

#devops #security #opensource #api

3 min read

Soleiman Mansouri

May 4

I Built a Debugging Memory for AI Coding Agents — Here's the System Behind It

#ai #opensource

9 min read

Lyra

Apr 11

Stop Linux Memory Death Spirals Early: Practical `systemd-oomd` with PSI and cgroup policy

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Neha Setia for Extract by Zyte

Apr 11

What the Scrapy Maintainer Thinks About AI-Generated Scrapers

#ai #opensource #claude #webscraping

2 min read

Bibin Babu Skaria

Apr 11

Jenkins Cloud Native ECS repo (open-source)

#showdev #aws #devops #opensource

1 min read

Guard Calf

Apr 11

WSL Dashboard v0.6.0: The Ultimate WSL Management Tool for Developers

#linux #opensource #rust #wsl2

3 min read

LeeTaihe

Apr 11

How I Built a Design Review Tool for AI-Generated Frontends

#ai #frontend #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Archrad

Apr 11

Detecting architecture drift during system design

#architecture #opensource #ai #enterprise

2 min read

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Levi

Apr 11

I got tired of hand-wiring agent tools, so I built an OpenAPI MCP converter

#ai #opensource #webdev #tooling

3 min read

Brian Oiko

Apr 15

From Confused to Confident: My Outreachy Contribution Experience

#beginners #codenewbie #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

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Vinh Nguyen for Stewie

Apr 15

Beyond CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md: when your coding agent needs a behavior spec

#ai #coding #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Shawn Sammartano

Apr 11

I built a crash-safe AI memory daemon that survives kill -9. Here's what it does.

#showdev #go #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 15

Introducing SynapseKit: The Async-Native Python LLM Framework I Built Because LangChain's Async is Broken

#python #mcp #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Loudi Agri

Apr 11

How We Built an AI Agricultural Assistant for Rwandan Rice Farmers

#ai #agriculture #africa #opensource

3 min read

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Muhammad Muzammil

May 4

Building Production-Ready RAG is Harder Than You Think (Here's How to Fix It)

#python #langchain #opensource #rag

4 min read

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