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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 12

I Built a One-Command macOS VM Tool for Proxmox 9

#proxmox #macos #homelab #opensource

2 min read

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Feb 12

Building Plus Ultra: How Antigravity Helped Me Bring Material Design to Bulma CSS 🎨

#ai #google #antigravity #opensource

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Feb 12

zkzkAgent – A Self-Hosted AI Assistant for Linux

#ai #opensource #privacy #agents

1 min read

Feb 13

How We Built View Notifications for Screen Recordings

#go #postgres #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Dmitriy A. for Globalping

Feb 13

8 Self-hosted Projects You Can Run at home

#opensource #beginners

6 min read

benngaihk

Feb 13

I Built a Notion-like Editor for Vue 3 with AI, 5 Themes, and Real-time Collaboration — It's 100% Free

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Feb 13

GDPR-Compliant Screen Recording: What You Actually Need to Know

#gdpr #privacy #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Feb 13

Your AI Agent Forgets Everything. Here's How to Give It a Brain That Actually Thinks.

#ai #security #opensource #programming

3 min read

Kazu

Feb 13

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

#go #opensource #analytics #refactoring

2 min read

OCLauncher Team

Feb 13

Deploying a 24/7 AI Personal Assistant on Fly.io: The Manual Guide (and the 30-second Shortcut)

#ai #opensource #automation #tutorial

3 min read

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Feb 13

OpenClaw Ruined My Project (And I'm Grateful It Did)

#ai #opensource #devjournal #programming

3 min read

Samuel EF. Tinnerholm

Feb 13

domeapi.io free and open source alternative

#cryptocurrency #opensource #api #github

2 min read

Feb 13

Making AI Workflows Predictable with MCP and Bifrost🔥

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

4 min read

GuardingPearSoftware

Feb 13

Is OpenClaw an opportunity for game developers and studios?

#agents #ai #gamedev #opensource

5 min read

Bowen

Feb 13

I Built a Zero-Code LLM Fine-Tuning App for Mac — Here's How It Works

#xamarin #opensource #machinelearning #ai

2 min read

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