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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

joinwell52

Apr 19

We replaced our multi-agent middleware with a folder. 48 hours later, the AI invented 6 coordination patterns.

#discuss #ai #opensource #architecture

25 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

Kir

Apr 19

Building ambient desktop particles for macOS with CAEmitterLayer

#showdev #opensource #performance #swift

4 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

Apr 19

Bayan Flow 0.4.0: From Algorithm Visualization to Real Understanding

#algorithms #opensource #webdev #learning

3 min read

Roman_14K

Apr 19

I built a Laravel queue monitoring tool because I got tired of not knowing what my jobs actually do

#laravel #php #opensource

2 min read

Alexandre Rusev

Apr 19

Mixed co-simulation with IcarusVerilog and NGSpice using "MixFighter" bridge.

#opensource #tooling #cosimulation #mixedcircuit

6 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 19

Portable Trust for AI Agents

#ai #security #python #opensource

3 min read

Nour833

Apr 19

How I packaged offline AI, Flask, and Cryptography into a single Python executable 🚀

#python #cybersecurity #opensource #ai

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 19

Kiwi-chan's Persistent Log-Gathering Blues

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Biagio

Apr 19

I built a "smart Spotlight" for macOS that sees your screen and executes tasks, here a couple of takeaways

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Ryan

Apr 19

I'm building a censorship-resistant social network in Rust — and I need your help

#showdev #distributedsystems #opensource #rust

2 min read

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