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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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Huỳnh Lê Nhất Nghĩa for AWS Community Builders

Jul 8

Block the merge when a PR ships a vulnerability: a CI security gate with Synapse

#security #contributorswanted #go #opensource

8 min read

Jul 8

I kept forgetting to move my Jira tickets, so I built a CLI that does it for me

#git #productivity #cli #opensource

3 min read

suzukesan

Jul 8

Fixing the CL2529 Error on a Creality Ender-3 V3 Plus (Klipper Z-Probe Timeout) — Traced Through Source Code

#3dprinting #klipper #linux #opensource

4 min read

Jul 8

The Open-Weight Cliff

#news #ai #agents #opensource

2 min read

Jul 8

I built training wheels for AI coding agents, then found a critical bug in them by pointing my code reviewer at them

#opensource #ai #security #programming

4 min read

Jul 8

Click a link, get a throwaway tenant: a zero-signup demo for a self-hosted app

#showdev #php #saas #opensource

4 min read

Jul 8

My Loss Went Down, But My Model Still Broke — So I Built a Drift Metric

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

1 min read

Jul 8

Best Free Local AI Agent Setup for Mac Mini M4 16GB

#ai #llm #opensource #openclaw

15 min read

Jul 8

The Evolving Agent: How Jean2 Learns Across Sessions

#ai #opensource #devtools #productivity

5 min read

Jul 8

My VM state check reads one line of VBoxManage output, and it's one character from reading the wrong one

#powershell #testing #virtualbox #opensource

3 min read

Caroline Y

Jul 8

Why We Open-Sourced Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM)

#opensource #security #pki #devops

3 min read

mattybellx

Jul 8

I Built a 100% Offline SAST Scanner That Finds What Semgrep and CodeQL Miss

#python #security #sast #opensource

1 min read

Vesmot

Jul 8

Evident: Proving Digital Ownership Without Revealing Your Content

#rust #privacy #opensource #security

2 min read

Oliver Weinhold for PureWiki.org

Jul 8

PureWiki - A Minimalist File-Based Wiki

#showdev #opensource #wiki #webdev

2 min read

jigz

Jul 8

How to Use Tencent Hy3 For Free (Open Source AI Guide)

#tencent #ai #opensource #coding

5 min read

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