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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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Dennis Havermans

Mar 16

I built a tool to stop my AI agent instruction files from drifting out of sync

#devtools #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Pepsi

Mar 4

Why JSON.parse Fails on Valid JSON (Hidden Unicode Characters)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #debugging

1 min read

Apr 3

I built an npm malware scanner in Rust because npm audit isn't enough

#npm #security #rust #opensource

3 min read

Mar 6

We Scanned 100,000 AI Agent Files for EU AI Act Compliance. 90% Failed.

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

3 min read

Alexander Wondwossen

Mar 3

I Built an AI Integration Hub at 13 — Here's What I Learned

#typescript #ai #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Glen Yu for Google Developer Experts

Mar 31

Implementing a RAG system: Walk

#rag #genai #opensource #adk

4 min read

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Likhit Kumar V P

Apr 5

I Built an MCP Server That Lets AI Autonomously Debug Salesforce - Here's How

#ai #mcp #opensource #typescript

8 min read

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ckmtools

Mar 16

I Published 14 dev.to Articles About My npm Package — Here’s What Got Views

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Cover image for Axios Was Compromised. Here's What It Means for Your Repo.

Joseph Yeo

Apr 6

Axios Was Compromised. Here's What It Means for Your Repo.

#security #npm #supplychain #opensource

3 min read

Mar 3

Icon Licensing for Developers: What You Need to Know

#discuss #opensource #design #webdev

5 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Mar 3

Did OpenTelemetry deliver on its promise in 2023?

#devops #monitoring #opensource #sre

9 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Mar 3

Nginx Metrics and Logs Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tutorial

10 min read

Cover image for Luminary: The Setup

Mar 7

Luminary: The Setup

#community #devjournal #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 3

How I Used go/ast to Auto-Generate API Docs from Go HTTP Handlers

#go #opensource #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Cover image for I built OpenArca — a self-hosted workflow tool for developer teams (open source)

Visio Lab

Mar 2

I built OpenArca — a self-hosted workflow tool for developer teams (open source)

#showdev #opensource #productivity #tooling

1 min read

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