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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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Aboubakar Camara

Mar 31

Your AI Agents Run 24/7. Your Laptop Doesn't. I Built a Mobile Docker Dashboard.

#devops #docker #opensource #reactnative

5 min read

Pritom Mazumdar

Mar 30

How I Built Video Token Optimization for Vision LLMs: Cutting Costs 13-45% with Frame Dedup + Scene Detection

#python #opensource #mcp

5 min read

Mar 30

Why we built nested steerable tool loops for AI agents

#opensource #automation #architecture #agents

3 min read

Mar 30

Three Threads, One Terminal: Concurrency in Rust with Channels and Atomics

#rust #cli #terminal #opensource

8 min read

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Jakub

Mar 30

I was tired of next-themes being abandoned, so I built a drop-in replacement

#nextjs #react #typescript #opensource

3 min read

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Rotifer Protocol

Mar 31

Is Your Skill Evolving? — From Packaging Best Practices to Letting Them Compete

#ai #evolution #opensource #devtools

5 min read

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Siddharth Singh

Mar 30

Open Source Incident Management: Why It Matters

#opensource #devops #kubernetes #ai

4 min read

Sagar Maheshwary

Mar 30

How I Debug Logs Across Services (and Why I Built a CLI Tool)

#productivity #cli #programming #opensource

3 min read

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Wallaby Designs

Mar 31

Git Web Manager: Open Source Git management at your fingertips

#showdev #devops #git #opensource

1 min read

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Grujowmi

Mar 30

ShadowFortress: how I aggregate hundreds of IP blocklists into a single ready-to-use file

#security #blocklist #opensource #learning

3 min read

Guillermo Fernandez

Mar 30

Introducing ORCA: executable skills and capabilities for AI agent workflows

#opensource #python #ai #agents

2 min read

Erika Sánchez-Femat

Mar 30

fastrad: GPU-Native Radiomics at 25x the Speed of PyRadiomics

#showdev #opensource #python #api

5 min read

capman

Mar 30

I built a tool that lets AI agents interact with your app without navigating the UI

#ai #typescript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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Mar 29

Every backend developer has this headache 😩

#node #systemdesign #opensource #npm

2 min read

Dheeraj

Mar 30

Empty (Blank Board): A Minimal Canvas Where Everything Is a Plugin

#javascript #opensource #webdev #buildinpublic

2 min read

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