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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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OneMind

Feb 11

Moltbook proved AI agents can talk. But can they agree?

#showdev #ai #discuss #opensource

3 min read

Feb 2

Tab overload, built a snapshot tool (classic dev move)

#chromeextension #opensource #buildinpublic

1 min read

Cover image for I built an open-source SBOM dashboard to track vulnerabilities across all my projects

Feb 1

I built an open-source SBOM dashboard to track vulnerabilities across all my projects

#opensource #security #devops

2 min read

Cover image for Implementing sudo for LLMs: A Middleware Approach to AI Security

Naman-sharma00100

Jan 31

Implementing sudo for LLMs: A Middleware Approach to AI Security

#ai #security #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Amr

Jan 31

I built a "Bot Factory" in Go that routes thousands of Telegram bots through a single port

#go #opensource #telegram

1 min read

Cover image for Why I Switched to Mullvad VPN: The Open Source VPN 🔒

Domenico Tenace

Feb 1

Why I Switched to Mullvad VPN: The Open Source VPN 🔒

#privacy #opensource #browser #networking

14 min read

Cover image for How to Count a Billion Unique Items with Almost No Memory

Feb 1

How to Count a Billion Unique Items with Almost No Memory

#python #datascience #algorithms #opensource

5 min read

Cover image for At Some Point, Your Code Stops Being Enough

Feb 5

At Some Point, Your Code Stops Being Enough

#digitalfootprint #careerdevelopment #books #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Kalynt: An Open-Core AI IDE with Offline LLMs , P2P Collaboration and much more...

Feb 1

Kalynt: An Open-Core AI IDE with Offline LLMs , P2P Collaboration and much more...

#opensource #ai #privacy #devtool

3 min read

Cover image for Why Google Refuses to Index Your Next.js Site

Jan 31

Why Google Refuses to Index Your Next.js Site

#webdev #nextjs #seo #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for I built a Rust-powered web vulnerability scanner with 60+ modules

Bountyyfi

Jan 31

I built a Rust-powered web vulnerability scanner with 60+ modules

#webdev #security #rust #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for InvestorMate: AI-Powered Stock Analysis in Python — And calling out open-source devs for feedback and contributions

Chandu Siddartha

Jan 31

InvestorMate: AI-Powered Stock Analysis in Python — And calling out open-source devs for feedback and contributions

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

3 min read

Cover image for Treat AI Output as Untrusted Input

Jan 31

Treat AI Output as Untrusted Input

#ai #infrastructure #security #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for How to Export Chrome Bookmarks as JSON — and Why I Built a One-Click Extension for It

Wasil

Feb 4

How to Export Chrome Bookmarks as JSON — and Why I Built a One-Click Extension for It

#javascript #productivity #opensource #extensions

2 min read

Cover image for AICtrlNet: Visual AI Orchestration with Native Human-in-the-Loop (MIT Licensed)

Srirajasekhar Koritala

Jan 29

AICtrlNet: Visual AI Orchestration with Native Human-in-the-Loop (MIT Licensed)

#ai #opensource #python #devops

3 min read

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