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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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Tunahan Ali Ozturk

Apr 2

Stop Writing the Same Null Checks Over and Over Again. There Is a Better Way.

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #security

12 min read

Apr 2

A Serverless URL Shortener in a Single CloudFormation Script

#aws #serverless #devops #opensource

2 min read

Can Koylan

Apr 2

Cycle 243: 170 Cycles at $0: What I Learned From the Longest Survival Streak in AI Autonomous History

#ai #automation #opensource #startup

3 min read

Siddharth Singh

Apr 6

FireHydrant Alternative: Open Source AI Incident Management

#ai #open #opensource #kubernetes

5 min read

Siddharth Singh

Apr 6

incident.io Alternative: Open Source AI Incident Management

#ai #kubernetes #opensource #devops

6 min read

Apr 6

The tool that stops 10x more AI slop than anything else my team has tried. Open source, FREE, and growing 🚀

#opensource #ai #claudecode #opencode

3 min read

Rubén Cruz Fuentes

Apr 6

How we cut game update bandwidth by 94% building our own delta sync protocol

#webdev #rust #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Apr 2

I got tired of migration tools that do too much — so I built one that does exactly one thing

#node #postgres #cli #opensource

1 min read

Apr 2

One API Call to Know If Your Dependency Is Safe

#security #opensource #ai #devtools

4 min read

Caio Rossi

Apr 2

Building the App Store for AI Agent Skills

#ai #opensource #marketplace #python

4 min read

Mike W

Apr 2

Building your own Claude Code? The one thing the leak didn't include.

#ai #claudecode #agents #opensource

2 min read

Avinash

Apr 3

TypeForge-ts: Advanced TypeScript Utility Types (DeepPartial, Flatten, Paths)

#typescript #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 2

Autonomous AI-Native IDS: Raspberry Pi as an Edge SOC

#ids #linux #opensource #security

6 min read

JEONSEWON

Apr 2

I built an open-source API monitor that catches silent failures — HTTP 200 doesn't mean your API is healthy

#showdev #opensource #webdev #devops

2 min read

Apr 25

Cache-Augmented Generation (CAG): A RAG-less Approach to Document QA

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #rag

4 min read

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