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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 19

Forgejo Vs Gitlab Ce

#cicd #devops #git #opensource

5 min read

Mar 18

VS Code Weekly: One Week Into Weekly Releases, Microsoft Ships 10+ Insiders Features

#devex #ai #opensource #vscode

9 min read

Mar 19

I Built a Free API for U.S. Business Entity Lookups

#api #webdev #opensource #startup

3 min read

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Mar 18

What happens when an AI architect performs 10 reviews of their architecture?

#showdev #ai #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Wu Long

Mar 18

What Makes a Good Open Source PR (Lessons From Getting Mine Closed)

#opensource #github #beginners #programming

4 min read

Ashish Jha

Mar 18

Detecting LLM Agent Contradictions Using NLI and Total Variance — A Python Implementation

#python #llm #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Bridge ACE

Mar 18

5 AI Agents vs Tesla: How We Found a P1 Vulnerability in 38 Minutes

#security #ai #bugbounty #opensource

3 min read

Mar 18

Stop Sending 93K Tokens of Schema to Your LLM Agent!

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 19

The Cheapest Way to Self-Host Uptime Kuma in 2026

#selfhosted #monitoring #opensource #devops

9 min read

Siddhesh Shirdhankar

Mar 21

I Built 1Note - A Secure Ephemeral Note Sharing Tool (and What It Taught Me)

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Onur Cinar

Mar 18

Infinite Data Processing in Go: Building Resilient Data Pipes with Channels

#go #datascience #opensource #architecture

5 min read

Mar 18

Deluge vs qBittorrent: Which Torrent Client?

#automation #docker #linux #opensource

4 min read

Radosław

Mar 18

🛡️ How to Stop Your AI Agent from Sending 10,000 Emails in a Loop

#ai #programming #opensource #typescript

6 min read

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Ima Claw

Mar 18

I Open-Sourced My AI Cost Optimization Journey: How We Cut $800/day to Under $370/day (Without Sacrificing Output)

#opensource #ai #costoptimization #automation

4 min read

Mar 19

How Typed Conflict Resolution Beats Mem0 and MemGPT on the Hardest Memory Benchmark

#ai #opensource #llm #python

6 min read

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