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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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Apr 1

I'm 18 and Built an Open-Source Camera That Cryptographically Proves Photos Are Real

#opensource #security #android #kotlin

3 min read

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Apr 6

I got tired of page navigation. So I built a zoom-based alternative

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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TelecomHub

Apr 2

How Distributed Orchestration Changes Service Activation

#telecom #opensource #cloudnative

4 min read

Apr 1

'AI Slop' vs No Review at All - Which Actually Kills Open Source?

#ai #opensource #codereview #softwareengineering

5 min read

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Giuseppe Carlà

Apr 1

Telepage – I built a self-hosted PHP app that turns any Telegram channel into a website

#php #opensource #telegram #selfhosted

2 min read

Apr 1

BuzzFeed Is Dying Because It Bet Everything on AI — And Its CEO Still Won't Admit It

#ai #media #opensource #business

6 min read

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Siddharth Singh

Apr 2

Resolve.ai Alternative: Open Source AI for Incident Investigation

#ai #devops #kubernetes #opensource

6 min read

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skarL007

Apr 6

I built an open-source FinOps layer for GenAI APIs real-time USD cost per OTel span, multi-tenant isolation, zero prompt logging

#python #opentelemetry #opensource #llm

4 min read

Sandy Shen

Apr 1

Reducing bootstrap memory cost in LLM agents

#ai #opensource #devops #llm

1 min read

Saray Chak for Bawbel

May 5

Bawbel Scanner v1.1.0: Attack chain detection, server-card scanning, and rug pull detection for MCP

#security #mcp #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 1

Adding Bluesky Rich Link Preview cards to Postiz

#webdev #socialmedia #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

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Muhammad Tayyab

Apr 1

I Built a Free Code Sharing Tool Because Pastebin Has Too Many Ads

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

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Harald Reisinger

Apr 1

AI coding created a new class of creators. I'm one of them.

#showdev #ai #opensource #macos

3 min read

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Veliswa_Boya 🇿🇦

Apr 1

A beginner's guide to understanding tools in Strands Agents | Part 1

#agents #tooling #opensource

6 min read

Apr 1

Criei uma CLI em Rust para pagamentos Pix — e ela tem um MCP server para AI agents fazerem pagamentos

#rust #opensource #mcp #ai

5 min read

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