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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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Cover image for Open-Source CVE Triage: Combining NVD, CISA KEV, and EPSS in One MCP Server

Tony Lewis

Apr 8

Open-Source CVE Triage: Combining NVD, CISA KEV, and EPSS in One MCP Server

#security #opensource #mcp #python

5 min read

Cover image for I Built an AI Website Roaster — Paste a URL, Get Absolutely Destroyed

Ovi ren

Apr 12

I Built an AI Website Roaster — Paste a URL, Get Absolutely Destroyed

#showdev #webdev #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

Aurora

Apr 8

Why I stopped using generic AI tools for game development and built my own

#gamedev #opensource #programming #tooling

5 min read

Cover image for I Built a DevTools for WebMCP — Because console.log Isn't a Debugging Strategy

SnapTools

Apr 8

I Built a DevTools for WebMCP — Because console.log Isn't a Debugging Strategy

#webdev #chrome #ai #opensource

4 min read

Apr 9

Why I stopped paying for SaaS tools and built my own Docker ecosystem instead

#docker #selfhosted #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Cover image for Stop Using Templates: I Built an AI CLI That Generates Projects From Instructions

Apr 8

Stop Using Templates: I Built an AI CLI That Generates Projects From Instructions

#ai #devtool #opensource #programming

1 min read

劉寅

Apr 8

Release Guard Lite — 一个 10 秒搞定发版风险检查的 CLI 工具

#showdev #automation #cli #opensource

1 min read

joseph njoroge kariuki

Apr 8

THE AKASHIC RECORDS: Stop Giving Your Ego to the Cloud: Building a Sovereign Neural Library.

#showdev #ai #opensource #career

2 min read

Cover image for I scanned 20 popular Python packages for dangerous regex patterns. Here is what I found.

Harshith Reddy Nalla

Apr 8

I scanned 20 popular Python packages for dangerous regex patterns. Here is what I found.

#python #security #opensource #webdev

4 min read

정상록

Apr 8

Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving Open-Source AI Agent Framework (v0.7.0 Deep Dive)

#agents #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for LLMKube Now Deploys Any Inference Engine, Not Just llama.cpp

Christopher Maher

Apr 8

LLMKube Now Deploys Any Inference Engine, Not Just llama.cpp

#llm #opensource #ai #kubernetes

3 min read

Cover image for I built an open-source OSINT platform with 20+ recon modules and AI analysis

Saveliy

Apr 8

I built an open-source OSINT platform with 20+ recon modules and AI analysis

#opensource #security #python #webdev

2 min read

Cover image for Why Your Open-Source Dependencies Are a Ticking Time Bomb (And How to Defuse Them)

Alan West

Apr 8

Why Your Open-Source Dependencies Are a Ticking Time Bomb (And How to Defuse Them)

#security #opensource #devops #dependencies

5 min read

Apr 8

ARForge just became a full AUTOSAR Classic design pipeline — PlantUML diagrams and C code generation, zero vendor tooling

#autosar #embedded #opensource #automotive

4 min read

Art

Apr 8

The Benchmark Was a Lie (In Our Favor)

#programming #android #opensource #mobile

4 min read

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