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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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DemoJacob

Feb 16

Your AI Agent Knows Your Passwords — Here's How I Fixed It

#security #opensource #ai #openclaw

4 min read

Feb 16

Why I Rewrote My Email Editor from Scratch: From Blocks to Atoms Rewrite

#opensource #vue #webdev #email

3 min read

Wass B.

Feb 16

Multi Programming Languages Projects Made Easy - I Built Mangle.dev

#opensource #programming #tooling #api

1 min read

Mack

Feb 16

I Built a Grail Finder That Searches Vinted, eBay, Depop and More at Once

#webdev #ruby #opensource #fashion

4 min read

Mack

Feb 16

I Built a Grail Finder That Searches Vinted, eBay, Depop and More at Once

#webdev #ruby #opensource #fashion

3 min read

Feb 16

MySQL replication setup — 6 steps to configure master-slave replication

#database #opensource #mysql

8 min read

Yuyu

Feb 16

Your Fork Will Outlive Your Patience. A Systems Thinking Post-Mortem.

#devops #opensource #architecture #programming

6 min read

Mack

Feb 16

I Built a Recipe Extractor Because I'm Tired of Reading Life Stories Before Getting the Ingredients

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mack

Feb 16

I Built a Simple Smart Home Dashboard Because Home Assistant's UI Made Me Cry

#webdev #javascript #opensource #iot

3 min read

Feb 16

How We Added Custom Branding to Shared Video Pages

#go #webdev #opensource #css

5 min read

DropThe

Feb 16

30 Plus Countries Have Banned at Least One Major App. The List Keeps Growing.

#data #database #webdev #opensource

2 min read

FPVtune

Feb 16

Betaflight Has No Autotune — So I Built One

#showdev #opensource #machinelearning #tooling

3 min read

Dariusz Newecki

Feb 16

Stop Building Humanoid Agents: The Case for "Octopus Architecture"

#ai #architecture #python #opensource

4 min read

DropThe

Feb 16

Palantir Doubled Its Revenue in 2 Years. Almost No Other Defense Company Has.

#data #database #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Feb 16

Prompt Poaching: Why I Built Secret Sanitizer

#opensource #cybersecurity #ai #buildinpublic

3 min read

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