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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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May 4

Governance and Liability in AI Agents: What I Built Trying to Answer Those Questions

#python #ai #security #opensource

4 min read

Samandar Tolibov

May 4

Building a P2P Payment Gateway in Laravel without Merchant Licenses

#showdev #laravel #opensource #php

2 min read

Matheus Simonaci Vieira

May 4

I Built a Real-Time Voice AI in 50 Minutes. Here's How (and Why)

#ai #opensource #webdev #node

2 min read

Athan for stdlib

May 9

Zen of stdlib

#javascript #software #opensource

4 min read

Sivaram

May 9

I got tired of babysitting my Hermes Agent, so I'm hosting one for you

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

4 min read

blabla

May 4

How I built a censorship-resistant decentralized forum with IPFS, Gun.js and Ethereum

#webdev #web3 #opensource #privacy

2 min read

May 4

COSS Weekly: ComfyUI raises $30m, Warp.dev goes OSS, Portkey acquired by Palo Alto Networks, and more

#opensource #coss #weekly

3 min read

Ayon Pal

May 4

I built a free macOS app to mount SFTP, S3, and FTP as real Finder volumes — no macFUSE

#showdev #opensource #swift

2 min read

Ozlem

May 4

I built a CLI that tells you where your Kubernetes money burns

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cli

2 min read

May 4

Extending my TypeScript auto-fix CLI to handle .filter(Boolean) narrowing issues

#typescript #opensource #javascript #productivity

1 min read

Sofiia Rumiantseva

May 4

How VLESS Reality Made VPNs Unblockable by Pretending to Be Google

#opensource #security #networking #privacy

5 min read

Ertugrul

May 4

PromptLedger v0.6 — Turning prompt history into a local workspace dashboard

#showdev #promptengineering #python #opensource

2 min read

Tlaloc-Es

May 4

How I got my Python library listed on Awesome Python (and what I learned along the way)

#python #opensource #beginners #careerdevelopment

5 min read

Beta

May 8

I Built a Self-Hosted Image Hosting Platform in Go — and Gave It an MCP Interface

#ai #selfho #programming #opensource

4 min read

May 4

Building EDIFlow - Application Layer: Use Cases, Ports & Factories (Part 3)

#typescript #cleanarchitecture #opensource #edi

7 min read

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