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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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Jun 16

Wuchale: One Year of Compile-Time i18n

#webdev #i18n #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jun 16

I built a working SSL certificate replacement using Certificateless Public Key Cryptography (CL-PKC) – live demo inside

#security #cryptography #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jun 16

Marreta Lang: a zero-ceremony DSL for REST APIs

#showdev #webdev #api #opensource

3 min read

hwlsniper

Jun 16

I Built a PDF Tool That Never Uploads Your Files — Here's Why

#showdev #opensource #webdev #privacy

2 min read

Jun 16

I built a CLI that learns from your past bugs — here's how the scoring works

#devtools #opensource #claude #debugging

4 min read

Jun 16

I got tired of copying ping, traceroute, MTR and port checks so I built pingtrace

#networking #go #cli #opensource

5 min read

Jun 16

How I Found Real Bugs in MoneyPrinterTurbo, CodeceptJS, and Magento — And Got Them Merged

#opensource #qa #testing #javascript

4 min read

Jun 16

LocalityLens: Why Your AI Coding Agent Gets Lost in Your Codebase

#ai #opensource #agents #software

4 min read

Jun 16

I’m building a local-first TypeScript guard for runaway AI-agent costs

#ai #opensource #api #agents

2 min read

Siddharth Pandey

Jun 16

Stop Paying For Retrieval Latency On Chunks You Never Use In The Prompt

#rag #opensource #llm #typescript

5 min read

Jun 16

You Spent $35,000 Fine-Tuning a Model. A $28,000 RAG System Would Have Done It Better.

#discuss #ai #beginners #opensource

5 min read

CodeKing

Jun 16

My Coding Agent Asked Permission for Every Tiny Step

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Ryo Hoshi

Jun 16

Why I'm Building Trust Infrastructure as a Solo Founder

#ai #opensource #rust #buildinpublic

3 min read

Petko D. Petkov

Jun 16

Stop prompting. Start shipping._

#opensource #coding #ai

1 min read

Ameer Hamza Saifi

Jun 16

Building OpenLib: An Open-Source Software Discovery Platform Inspired by IMDb and GitHub

#opensource #webdev #linux

2 min read

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