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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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Malthus AMETEPE

Apr 16

thusdev-fetch atteint 256 téléchargements npm en 2 jours !

#node #javascript #opensource #npm

1 min read

Clef.sh

Apr 15

The Tradeoff Every Secrets Manager Forces on You (And Why It's the Server's Fault)

#security #devops #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Mārtiņš Veiss

Apr 15

Why We Built AutoBot: The WordPress of AI

#ai #selfhosted #opensource #privacy

3 min read

SD

Apr 20

I built an open-source AI spreadsheet that doesn't hallucinate math

#discuss #opensource #ai #webdev

2 min read

Aayush kumarsingh

Apr 15

The gap between detecting hallucinations and handling them

#python #opensource #llm #rag

2 min read

Hussnain Raza ⚡

May 8

I Built a Swiss Army Knife for Developers — View Every File Format Instantly

#json #webdev #developers #opensource

2 min read

Apr 15

Building skillgrab: auto-detecting stacks across JS, Python, Go, mobile and infra to install AI agent skills in one command

#ai #opensource #cli #claude

4 min read

Joey Lee

Apr 15

The Billion-Token Battle: Shipping Our OpenClaw Windows Client

#electron #windows #openclaw #opensource

4 min read

Apr 15

How I built a solar-powered RS-485 soil sensor node for orchard management (open hardware)

#ai #esp32 #iot #opensource

3 min read

May 8

Owned Async Work In TypeScript. Promise.race Does Not Cancel Your Work

#ai #node #opensource #webdev

6 min read

David Van Assche (S.L)

Apr 15

Adding Epistemic Hooks to Your Workflow: From pip install to Measured AI in 5 Minutes

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Apr 15

I Played GitHub's AI Agent Security Game. Here's What Every Level Teaches About Credential Isolation.

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

7 min read

Apr 15

I Built an AI-Native Webhook Inspector & Relay in 6 Weeks — Here’s What I Learned

#ai #opensource #webhook #developertool

4 min read

김이더

Apr 15

Happy — The Open-Source App That Puts Claude Code in Your Pocket

#ai #claudecode #opensource #sideprojects

5 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 15

I tried every Node.js antivirus library. Here's what I found.

#node #security #javascript #opensource

4 min read

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