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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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Jon Reeve

Sep 26

New OSS tool: Gonzo + Vercel Logs Live Tailing

#vercel #opensource #tui #monitoring

1 min read

Vishwaraja Pathi (Vishwa)

Sep 26

Building a Comprehensive Reddit CLI Tool: From Basic Posting to Full Reddit Management with 33+ Commands

#reddit #python #cli #opensource

5 min read

Cristian Cardoso

Sep 26

Configurando MPLS no OpenBSD com circuito VPLS

#networking #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Sep 26

⚡Here Are 5 GitHub Projects Too Cool to Miss

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Sep 26

How AI Agents Unlock New Integration Paradigms Beyond Traditional APIs

#api #opensource #ai #agents

4 min read

DASWU

Sep 26

MLPerf Storage v2.0: JuiceFS Leads in Bandwidth Utilization and Scalability for AI Training

#ai #opensource

9 min read

@arthurdevfrontend

Sep 26

Mini Web Socket

#javascript #websocket #opensource #node

1 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Sep 26

Project of the Week: Alpine.js

#discuss #javascript #opensource #github

3 min read

T2C for tsquaredc

Sep 26

Model Context Protocol (MCP): What Developers Need to Know

#opensource #tooling #api #ai

2 min read

Lee Marer

Sep 26

LINUX.IN/SIDE

#linux #opensource

2 min read

Judy

Sep 26

Employees who have accumulated more than 5 years of work experience in New York--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #spl

2 min read

Buoncri

Sep 26

Hello dev.to

#opensource #programming #django #python

1 min read

NocoBase

Sep 26

NocoBase as ED’s Technology Foundation: From Internal Systems to Commercial Products

#opensource #tooling #lowcode #nocode

5 min read

Zegham Ali

Sep 25

Amazon Bestsellers Scraper – Extract Top Product Data with Ease

#showdev #python #opensource #automation

2 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Sep 25

Working in Parallel Branches: Lessons from My Project

#challenge #git #opensource

2 min read

NocoBase

Sep 25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 25

90 Days of Code: Day 17 — Building a Number Memory Game in Python

#programming #python #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Sep 25

Python Tricks: Convert Strings to CamelCase, PascalCase, Kebab-Case, Snake_Case in One Line

#python #programming #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Sep 25

Comparing Autodesk Forge vs. Open-Source Alternatives for BIM Visualization

#discuss #autodesk #opensource #news

3 min read

Sep 25

Working with Parallel Branches in my project

#git #softwaredevelopment #opensource

2 min read

Guilherme Gonçalves Machado

Sep 24

Hubstry-ISO_Code: Coding with Conscience from Brazil 🇧🇷

#opensource #tooling #startup #security

2 min read

["Ilker":{...}]

Sep 25

🚀 Orbit OS – Authentication System + Theme Overhaul (Biggest Update Yet)

#opensource #javascript #node #nextjs

2 min read

Saint

Sep 24

Building 'The Scroll of Dharma': A Technical Deep Dive into an Interactive Meditation Platform

#python #webdevstreamlit #opensource

5 min read

Sep 24

Why I built Toolhover: free online tools that make everyday tasks easier

#productivity #webdev #tools #opensource

1 min read

Tiago S. P Rodrigues

Sep 24

Vemto (the Laravel code generator) is now Open Source

#laravel #opensource #php #webdev

1 min read

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