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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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Feb 15

How an Independent Developer Defended Their Open‑Source Project from Cloning, Accusations, and Abuse

#security #opensource #github #cybersecurity

3 min read

Datastrato for Apache Gravitino

Feb 15

Apache Gravitino Iceberg REST Catalog Access Control Deployment Guide

#datacatalog #icebergrest #metadata #opensource

6 min read

stevejvv

Feb 17

I built an API that detects chess tactical patterns from FEN and PGN

#chess #python #api #opensource

2 min read

Feb 15

I Replaced 25 Lines of OpenAI Boilerplate with 6 — Here's the Library

#typescript #ai #opensource #webdev

3 min read

JackWu

Feb 15

Automating 4 macOS Terminals for Claude Code: AppleScript, Ghostty's `-e` Trap, and Warp's Missing API

#showdev #swift #productivity #opensource

9 min read

Ben Sabic

Feb 16

I built npx build-skill, here's why you should use it

#ai #resources #cli #opensource

4 min read

SatoMiHill

Feb 15

[Github Discoveries] PeonPing: AI Programming with Warcraft III Voice Prompts, Making Claude Code Less Boring

#ai #opensource #programming #tooling

3 min read

Feb 15

I Built an AI Agent That Manages Its Own API Keys With Janee

#ai #mcp #security #opensource

3 min read

Turtleand

Feb 15

AI Image Generation vs Code: Which Makes Better Banners?

#opensource #ai #tutorial #programming

3 min read

Dev

Feb 15

Handling D-Bus Service Recovery in Long-Running Linux Desktop Applications

#linux #opensource #programming #softwareengineering

2 min read

ecap0

Feb 15

Why Your AI Agent Needs a Security Audit (And How to Do It in 30 Seconds)

#ai #security #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Harish Kotra (he/him)

Feb 15

Building a Local-First Resume Analyzer Agent with Gemma 3 and LangExtract

#ai #programming #python #opensource

3 min read

Feb 15

How to Sign Your Python .exe With Sigstore (No Certificate Required)

#security #python #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Feb 15

Beijing to Breakfast: Why You Are Reading Yesterday s AI News

#news #ai #china #opensource

5 min read

Dor Amir

Feb 17

I kept hitting the "quota wall" with AI coding tools. So I built a router.

#openai #llm #python #opensource

2 min read

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