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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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Donnie Brown for OWASP BLT

Feb 18

Introducing BACON: The First Open Source Security Token Built on Bitcoin Runes

#bitcoin #blockchain #opensource #security

2 min read

Caleb Jeon

Feb 17

I Built a Pre-commit Security Scanner with Claude Code

#showdev #security #opensource #python

2 min read

Feb 18

A CI tool that stops AI from undoing your team's architectural decisions

#opensource #rust #react #webdev

3 min read

Vic Chen

Feb 17

I Curated an Awesome List for SEC Filing Tools & Resources

#github #opensource #investing #fintech

2 min read

Nucleus OS

Feb 17

Engrams & SQLite: Solving AI Context Amnesia with Nucleus-MCP Tags: AI, SQLite, Productivity, Open Source

#agents #ai #mcp #opensource

1 min read

Lyra

Feb 17

Beyond htop: Modern Linux Observability with eBPF

#linux #devops #opensource #performance

2 min read

Pat

Feb 16

I Rebuilt My Agent Framework From Scratch. Here's Why TypeScript Won.

#opensource #typescript #ai #webdev

4 min read

Feb 17

I Built a Claude Code Plugin That Enforces My Development Standards in Every Session

#ai #productivity #opensource #devtools

3 min read

Feb 17

Search Scientific Papers from Any AI Tool — Introducing BGPT MCP

#ai #science #research #opensource

2 min read

Feb 17

When “MySQL” isn’t actually MySQL

#webdev #mysql #devops #opensource

1 min read

Feb 17

AGENTS.md Files Don't Work the Way You Think — A 138-Repo Study Proves It

#ai #devrel #opensource #productivity

10 min read

Rizky Bachtiar Irwanto

Feb 16

Building MultiWA: An Open-Source Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway

#opensource #webdev #docker #typescript

2 min read

Scott Smith (JNYCode)

Feb 17

How to add trust boundaries to your multi-agent system

#typescript #ai #security #opensource

3 min read

First Navigator

Feb 17

I Built a Validation System That Works on Mars (No Blockchain, No Cloud, Under 2ms)

#opensource #ai #rust #python

3 min read

Sam March

Feb 17

1.4.0: Authentication and local storage

#opensource #devops #browser

2 min read

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