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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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Mar 30

Why I Use Directus as My Backend — Flexible, Self-Hosted and Production Ready

#direct #webdev #opensource #backend

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Mar 25

I Built a Laravel Approval Engine to Stop Email Spam 🚀

#showdev #laravel #php #opensource

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Jarrad Bermingham

Mar 25

I Mapped the AI Attack Surface Nobody Else Has: Introducing AAISAF

#security #ai #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Nebu0528

Mar 29

I Built a Tool to Distribute Python Tasks Across Local Machines. Here's How It Performed

#showdev #distributedsystems #cli #opensource

3 min read

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Wallet Guy

Mar 25

How to Monitor Incoming Transactions for Your AI Agent's Wallet

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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Andrea Liliana Griffiths

Mar 25

A Rapper Tweeted About GitHub, So I Built Him a Learn-to-Code Repo from My Phone

#githubcopilot #copilotcli #copilotcodingagent #opensource

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dirham v1.3.0 — A Universal Web Component for the UAE Dirham Symbol

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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Mar 25

Code Autopsy #1: How ~90 Lines Turned System Monitoring Into A Conversation

#python #opensource #buildinpublic #ai

5 min read

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Mar 27

I Built a Free Tool to Compare Economies of 200+ Countries (World Bank API + Next.js)

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

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Hanzi Li

Mar 25

Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs

#mcp #ai #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 209: The Assignment Trap — Why Reserved Bounties Are Killing My Income

#ai #opensource #survival #bountyhunting

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Mar 25

[Side A] Building a RAM Disk on Windows without Admin Privileges — Python I/O Acceleration Techniques

#python #opensource #testing #devops

8 min read

Mar 25

How This Developer Built a Production-Ready RAG System with Claude Code in One Weekend

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

3 min read

Mar 25

Claude Code's Deny List Bypass: How to Protect Your Codebase from Compound Commands

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

4 min read

Albert Mavashev

Mar 25

Your AI Agent Budget Check Has a Race Condition

#python #architecture #distributedsystems #opensource

3 min read

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