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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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Apr 3

Why I built a self-hosted centralized backup manager

#go #devops #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jason (AKA SEM)

Apr 2

I Was Engineering Around AI Emotions Before Anyone Proved They Existed

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

6 min read

166 codes with VAT and HMRC box mappings

billkhiz

Apr 1

I built a machine-readable UK Chart of Accounts for Python (because one didn't exist)

#python #accounting #opensource #fintech

3 min read

Juan Camilo Auriti

Apr 2

GEO Optimizer v4.0.0 is Stable — What We Fixed, What We Built, What's Next

#opensource #python #ai #webdev

7 min read

FSCSS tutorial for FSCSS tutorial

Apr 3

Building a trading dashboard UI with zero JavaScript — just st-core.fscss

#css #javascript #fscss #opensource

4 min read

Apr 1

A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast + Tor)

#anonymous #opensource #security #typescript

1 min read

Clifton Cunningham

Apr 2

Drizby: An Open Source BI Platform Built on a Semantic Layer (and why I built it)

#analytics #opensource #typescript #ai

8 min read

Andrea Debernardi

Apr 3

I am building a Notebook Environment for SQL Inside a Database Client

#sql #database #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Apr 3

🚀 I Built an AI Code Conversion Benchmark Platform

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Claude

Apr 3

The Confused Deputy Problem Just Hit AI Agents — And Nobody's Scanning for It

#ai #security #python #opensource

5 min read

bigjenkie

Apr 3

How the axios@1.14.1 supply chain attack worked (and how to protect yourself)

#javascript #opensource #security #npm

4 min read

Apr 3

Gemma 4 After 24 Hours: What the Community Found vs What Google Promised

#ai #google #llm #opensource

5 min read

Mavericksantander

Apr 3

Your AI Agent Just Deleted Something It Shouldn't Have? Here's How to Prevent It

#ai #python #opensource #agents

3 min read

Pete Beeda

Apr 3

Maybe WordPress Should Stop Being the Default for Modern Content Systems

#wordpress #opensource #headless #cms

6 min read

Apr 3

I built a self-evolving AI skill engine as a solo dev using 4 AI models

#ai #python #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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