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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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Impact of sudden regulatory model recalls

Jonathan Murray

Jun 16

Why the Fable 5 Crisis Proves Your AI Context Layer Can't Live Inside the Model

#ai #coding #programming #opensource

3 min read

Fenix

Jun 17

MCP Security Crisis: Two Open-Source Frameworks Solving the Agent Security Problem

#ai #security #agents #opensource

3 min read

Dmitry Zakharov

Jun 17

Making my TypeScript types 15.7x faster

#typescript #performance #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Jun 17

One-Step Install and One-Flag OAuth for a Laravel MCP Server

#laravel #php #opensource #architecture

6 min read

bl4zeh3x

Jun 17

Two Mistakes Hiding Behind One Good-Looking Number

#machinelearning #python #tinyml #opensource

6 min read

benjamin

Jun 17

Your package-lock.json diff is unreadable. That's a supply-chain problem.

#showdev #security #npm #opensource

3 min read

RL Loz

Jun 17

rdev-go-api-template: Production-ready Go API Scaffolder & CLI Generator

#go #api #opensource #programming

2 min read

Lynkr

Jun 17

Why I’d Put Lynkr Between Goose and My Model Stack

#ai #opensource #devtools #tutorial

5 min read

Jack Chen

Jun 17

I open-sourced every Binance and OKX 2026 fee tier as JSON (+ a calculator)

#python #opensource #crypto #api

3 min read

侯垒

Jun 17

Building ccglass: the architecture of a local LLM reverse proxy

#node #claudecode #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Jun 17

GoHeapGuard v1.0.0 - Eliminate GC Pauses in Go

#go #performance #opensource

2 min read

Tomasz Karwatka

Jun 17

Fire-and-forget AI engineering: letting agents ship a production app unsupervised

#ai #opensource #devops #architecture

4 min read

benjamin

Jun 17

Your docs have dead links. I built a zero-dependency CLI that catches the local ones — no network

#showdev #markdown #cli #opensource

2 min read

Jun 17

Scarab Diagnostic Suite Field Test #030 — Hummingbot Close-Order Lifecycle Boundary

#discuss #fintech #ai #opensource

6 min read

limack0

Jun 17

I stopped trusting curl | sh — so I built a tool that reads the script first

#security #shell #devtools #opensource

4 min read

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