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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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Lyra

Apr 19

Stop Rebooting Linux Just in Case: Practical `needrestart` After APT Upgrades

#linux #automation #devops #opensource

5 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 17

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Antoine

Apr 19

Stop hardcoding API keys in your AI agents — how I built a governance layer in 3 weeks

#ai #security #opensource #nextjs

4 min read

Apr 19

I Analysed 200 PRs in Shadcn-UI/UI To Find Duplicates: It Went Surprisingly Well.

#showdev #ai #opensource #automation

6 min read

Apr 19

One-trick ponies are easy to replace

#discuss #webdev #opensource #database

4 min read

Kevin Wielander

Apr 19

Every digital business card tool sucks, so I built my own and open-sourced it

#opensource #nextjs #webdev #sideprojects

3 min read

Abisade Ogunwoolu (OVP)

Apr 19

I built the Ansible tool I wish I had: A visual debugger and "Limits" sandbox

#ansible #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Wes

Apr 19

htop for Your Git History

#opensource #go #git #tui

6 min read

Daksh Goel

Apr 19

How to Deploy an Open Source LLM Reliably on Kubernetes (Step-by-Step)

#kubernetes #docker #opensource #devops

8 min read

Apr 19

I found a critical CVE in a top AI agent framework. Here's what it taught me about how we're all building agents wrong.

#ai #security #opensource #agents

3 min read

QRYPTY

Apr 19

How I Built a Free Anonymous Email Service — No Phone, No Password, No Logs

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Apr 19

I built an API in C, couldn't document it, so I accidentally created an open-source tool

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

XINMurat

Apr 19

I Built an AI Agent That Analyzes Your Entire Codebase in One Command

#ai #python #opensource #devtools

5 min read

Claudio Tancredi

Apr 19

I built a gamified hub for open-source contributions, here's why

#opensource #github #beginners #gamification

3 min read

Kir

Apr 19

Building ambient desktop particles for macOS with CAEmitterLayer

#showdev #opensource #performance #swift

4 min read

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