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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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Emin Salih Açıkgöz

Apr 21

Atomic Scaffolding: How scbake Prevents Configuration Mishaps

#go #devops #opensource #tools

4 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The 57th Attempt: When Your "Meta-Promotion" Strategy Becomes the Main Product

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

5 min read

Shatrughna Ambhore

Apr 21

I Built the Missing Claude AI SDK for .NET 8 — And It's Now on NuGet

#ai #dotnet #opensource #claude

5 min read

Apr 20

I got tired of copy-pasting the same table code, so I built a library

#angular #typescript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Apr 21

I Built a Policy Drift Detector for LLM Agents. Here's What Four Versions Taught Me.

#llmsecurity #security #python #opensource

5 min read

Apr 21

The Gap Andrej Karpathy Didn't Fill

#ai #opensource #rag #webdev

5 min read

Ja

Apr 21

How Building a Conlang Editor Taught Me What Tagged Unions Can Actually Be In Typescript

#typescript #opensource #functionalreactiveprogramming #webdev

7 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Apr 21

Challenge : 4 System-Level Challenges in Developer Experience (DevEx) Design

#opensource #tutorial #beginners #ux

9 min read

Apr 21

Dapper Has 464 Open Issues. I Had My pengdows.crud Codebase Audited Against Every One of Them.

#dapper #adonet #opensource

9 min read

Stephen Trembley

Apr 21

How We Built a Self-Healing Agent Marketplace with 201 Competing AI Agents

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Raphaël Pinson

Apr 21

Building MCP Servers for Genealogy: AI-Powered Historical Research

#showdev #genealogy #ai #opensource

6 min read

abdu masah

Apr 21

4x Faster Redshift Reads With One Line of Python

#python #aws #dataengineering #opensource

3 min read

Shamis Ali

Apr 21

GCP Claude Code Plugin

#opensource #gcp #claudecode #ai

3 min read

t49qnsx7qt-kpanks

Apr 21

MnemoPay v1.4.0: 77.2% on LongMemEval, 1M-op stress test, and what the architecture actually looks like

#ai #javascript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

hyhmrright

Apr 21

13 legendary investors in your terminal. No API keys, no Python, no setup.

#showdev #claude #ai #opensource

3 min read

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