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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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Apr 21

Stop writing review prompts. Define them once in YAML — how I built Revvy for team code review

#ai #vscode #opensource #productivity

2 min read

sentinel-safety

Apr 25

Inside SENTINEL: How 13 Microservices Detect Child Grooming by Behavior, Not Keywords

#opensource #architecture #python #security

6 min read

Apr 21

ARForge v1.3.0 — validation profiles, architecture reports, and ARXML export fixes

#autosar #embedded #opensource #automotive

3 min read

Steven Jieli Wu

May 4

Field Notes from a Solo Builder — Shipping the Beloved Claude Code Buddy Into the Wild - Part IV

#buildinpublic #opensource #solofounder #ai

4 min read

Svn

Apr 21

I leaked my GH token to Claude

#ai #beginners #opensource #security

2 min read

akhil0997

Apr 21

nukon-pi-detect: a tiny, offline prompt-injection scanner for CI pipelines

#ai #python #security #opensource

1 min read

AttractivePenguin

Apr 21

JSON Canvas: How to Build Interoperable Infinite Canvas Apps with an Open Format

#json #canvas #opensource #webdev

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

From Knowledge Chaos to Clarity: What 2,847 Articles Taught Me About Building a Real "Second Brain"

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

6 min read

PromptOS

Apr 21

PromptOS - A desktop AI agent that actually controls your machine — not just a chatbot

#ai #python #opensource #productivity

1 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

Building My Digital Soul: The Brutal Truth About 6 Months of Failed Identity

#ai #opensource

6 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

After 34 Dev.to Posts: What My "Second Brain" Project Really Taught Me About Failure

#ai #opensource

5 min read

Apr 21

Xcore

#showdev #architecture #automation #opensource

1 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

From 34 Dev.to Posts to $112,750 in Lost Dreams: What Self-Promotion Really Taught Me

#ai #opensource

7 min read

DevSw

Apr 21

The Art Of Atomics: From TSO to Store Buffers

#discuss #cpp #opensource #learning

2 min read

willamhou

Apr 21

k8s4claw: A Kubernetes Operator for Managing AI Agent Runtimes

#kubernetes #go #ai #opensource

8 min read

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