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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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Ryan Swift

Apr 29

Forking Paseo: Mobile vibe coding for me

#ai #agents #vibecoding #opensource

5 min read

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Apr 26

15 Essential Sections Every README Needs: Give Your Project What It Deserves

#documentation #opensource #tutorial #development

11 min read

Apr 30

How PSScriptBuilder Analyzes PowerShell Dependencies — and What Happens When They Form a Cycle

#powershell #devtools #automation #opensource

3 min read

Apr 30

20-Year Linux Veteran Gets "Kernel Panicked"? Hardcore Fix for Random Desktop Freezes on AMD GPUs

#linux #kernel #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Arnold M S

Apr 30

Open Source OWASP API Security Scanner with AI-Assisted Testing

#security #devsecops #opensource #api

4 min read

ulku

Apr 30

Detecting Schema Drift Before It Breaks Production

#python #sqlalchemy #database #opensource

8 min read

Apr 30

KVQuant: Run 70B LLMs on 8GB RAM with Real-Time KV Cache Compression

#python #llm #ai #opensource

1 min read

Juan Camilo Auriti

Apr 30

GEO Optimizer v4.10.0: AI Search Audits Need Signals, Not Checklists

#ai #webdev #opensource #programming

10 min read

Apr 30

swarm-orchestrator v7.0.0-alpha.0

#ai #opensource #devops #testing

3 min read

Kriss

Apr 30

How to add dead man's switch monitoring to any cron job in 2 minutes

#devops #monitoring #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Cohorte

Apr 30

Your AI Agent Needs a Kill Switch. Here’s How to Build One.

#ai #agents #github #opensource

16 min read

Stefan Broenner

Apr 30

I Gave AI Agents Real Excel. They Did Not Use It Like I Expected - Proven By 90 Days of Telemetry.

#excel #ai #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Kazu

Apr 30

Beyond Lines: Announcing "gosemdiff" – A Logic-Aware Diff Tool for Go

#go #opensource #analytics #refactoring

2 min read

GEM² Inc.

Apr 30

Claude Skills want ALL

#claudecode #cloudskills #devtools #opensource

8 min read

Apr 30

Phleet Architecture Deep Dive

#showdev #ai #agents #opensource

10 min read

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