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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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Jan 14

Checksums: What They Are, Why They Matter, and Where They Belong in Your Release Pipeline

#programming #opensource #security #webdev

3 min read

Jan 14

Stop Zipping Folders: How I Built a Zero-Trust Tunnel to Share Files Instantly (in Go)

#go #opensource #cli #security

3 min read

Samanuai

Jan 13

I Built a LeetCode CLI That Tracks Your Solve Time and Saves Solution Versions

#typescript #leetcode #cli #opensource

2 min read

Evan Lin

Jan 15

[TIL][Go] Code Reading Tips for etcd: Optimizing Segregated Hashmaps

#algorithms #architecture #go #opensource

2 min read

Jan 15

How We Index 342 Million Chess Positions for Millisecond Lookups

#go #lichess #opensource #database

2 min read

Jan 14

More adventures in building a first flow with Kestra.io

#orchestration #automation #opensource #gettingstarted

7 min read

Evan Lin

Jan 15

FOSDEM 2020: Advanced Debugging Techniques for Go Code

#go #opensource #tooling

2 min read

0xkniraj

Jan 14

The ₿OSS Challenge: Cloaking My Signet Node for the Wallet challenge

#bitcoin #tor #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jan 14

Budowałem przez 5 miesięcy, build-in-public. Nikt nie patrzył. 22 grudnia mnie zwolnili.

#buildinpublic #python #opensource #programming

4 min read

Amine Ace

Jan 14

Stop Uploading Your Files: How I Built a 100% Client-Side Image Converter with React & Vite

#react #webdev #opensource #privacy

3 min read

pelavo

Jan 14

Skip Repetitive Stack Setup (Database, Auth, UI) and Start Coding Immediately

#cli #webdev #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Willie

Jan 14

Skillshare: Sync Your AI CLI Skills Across Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and OpenCode

#ai #cli #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jan 14

Switching from TS to Go

#programming #go #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Jan 14

Beyond the `go` Keyword: The Secret Life of Goroutines & The Go Runtime

#go #opensource #webdev #systems

8 min read

sebyx07

Jan 14

🌆 Introducing CYBERCORE CSS: A Cyberpunk Design Framework for Futuristic UIs

#css #webdev #opensource #design

3 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Jan 14

Metabase 58: Improved Documents - now for all, plus lots of Embedded Analytics upgrades

#metabase #opensource #analytics #programming

5 min read

Rahul Prajapati

Jan 14

I Built a High-Performance Trading Chart Engine in Flutter (and Open-Sourced It)

#flutter #opensource #performance #dart

2 min read

Jan 14

🐉 Leviathan UI v1.0.0 — Interfaces gráficas modernas en Python

#python #pypi #opensource #gui

4 min read

freerave

Jan 14

I built a VS Code extension that reads your project's mind

#vscode #productivity #opensource #dotcommand

2 min read

Brent G Saucedo

Jan 14

Is Meta Becoming the 4th Cloud Giant? (The Answer is Complicated)

#cloud #ai #meta #opensource

3 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Jan 14

How to Build Presto from Source - OSS Contribution Guide (Step by Step Tutorial)

#opensource #presto #dataengineering #dataanalytics

7 min read

kargathara Aakash

Jan 14

Top 10 Best Ever Open Source Apps

#opensource #android #mobile #ios

3 min read

Marco

Jan 14

I've open-sourced my document management system (built with Go, htmx and SQLite)

#opensource #go #webdev #saas

3 min read

luis Yanguas Gómez de la serna

Jan 14

How software development will transform in the next decade

#softwaredevelopment #ai #opensource

4 min read

Touseef Ibn Khaleel

Jan 14

Gaze Guard: Your Privacy-First AI Shield Against Unwanted Online Content

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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