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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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Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 9

I Shipped the Solution to Knowledge Collapse in 21 Days

#discuss #ai #opensource #activitypub

7 min read

Corbin Crutchley for Playful Programming

Feb 9

Merging the "This Is" Community into "Playful Programming"

#news #community #opensource

6 min read

Feb 13

Command Center for AI Coding Agents (Claude Code + Codex)

#opensource #ai #codex #claude

3 min read

Feb 9

I Built 2 AI Agents to Run My Open Source Project While I'm in Surgery

#ai #opensource #buildinpublic #agentsystem

4 min read

yalelet dessalegn

Feb 12

Why I Built nevr-env — And Why process.env Deserves Better

#typescript #opensource #webdev #devchallenge

4 min read

Feb 7

I Built a Programming Language Where think Is a Keyword

#ai #programming #opensource #typescript

6 min read

Feb 7

Why I use Typetify: A Type-Safe Alternative to Lodash

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Douxx

Feb 7

How I Built a Random Number Generator (Sort Of)

#programming #radio #python #opensource

8 min read

Feb 12

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

#proxmox #macos #homelab #opensource

3 min read

Debdut Chakraborty for Rocket.Chat

Feb 13

Conditions, Phases, and Declarative Phase Rules in Kubernetes Operators

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

8 min read

Feb 9

RoomKit, Pipecat, TEN Framework, LiveKit Agents: Choosing the Right Conversational AI Framework

#agents #ai #architecture #opensource

9 min read

Jonathan Philipos

Feb 8

I built codex-monitor so I could ship code while I slept

#ai #opensource #llm #programming

6 min read

Feb 8

Localising your React app the "Tailwind" way: no keys & no JSON, just code

#react #typescript #opensource #localisation

4 min read

0xgayyy

Feb 12

I Built the First Utility Library for GenLayer — Here's What's Inside

#ai #python #opensource #blockchain

4 min read

khanmjk

Feb 8

I built a “Steam Workshop” for system architecture + product roadmaps + org blueprints (runs in your browser)"

#opensource #architecture #productmanagement #ai

3 min read

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