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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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Biagio

Apr 19

I built a "smart Spotlight" for macOS that sees your screen and executes tasks, here a couple of takeaways

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Ryan

Apr 19

I'm building a censorship-resistant social network in Rust — and I need your help

#showdev #distributedsystems #opensource #rust

2 min read

codelluis

Apr 19

I Killed a Python Worker Mid-Task. Here's What Should Have Happened.

#python #backend #distributedsystems #opensource

4 min read

Влад Давыдов

Apr 19

Why I Code: Building Tools to Fund a Sanctuary for Animals and People

#ai #opensource #community #beginners

3 min read

Sergej Willmann

Apr 19

Fusion: Everything Is a Modular Package

#php #opensource

4 min read

MADANI

Apr 19

I built a 13-database ORM for Node.js because Prisma doesn't support Oracle

#node #typescript #database #opensource

2 min read

Apr 19

The Silent Bug: How a DOM Click Target Issue Was Breaking Formbricks Surveys

#frontend #javascript #opensource #typescript

4 min read

tahir

Apr 19

Take any of these five app ideas. They're for the trees.

#opensource #ai #ideas #sustainability

5 min read

OckhamNode

Apr 19

Why we stopped passing JSON between AI Agents (and built a Concurrent Trie instead)

#ai #opensource #architecture #go

3 min read

Apr 23

How I built a tool that actually proves your backups work before you need them

#python #docker #devops #opensource

3 min read

anon.li

Apr 19

SimpleLogin vs anon.li - a developer's honest comparison

#anonymous #privacy #security #opensource

5 min read

David Lastrucci

Apr 19

Change tracking and soft delete: audit trails without the boilerplate

#delphi #orm #database #opensource

4 min read

Apr 19

Whisper vs Google STT vs Deepgram: 2026 Comparison

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

8 min read

t-kuni

Apr 19

Emergency Workaround When There’s No ER Diagram

#database #erd #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Dhanik Keraliya

Apr 19

🚀 I built a real-time security scanner for Laravel

#laravel #php #opensource #security

1 min read

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