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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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nanda

May 29

I built a programming language where the syntax is plain English

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

May 29

I'm Blind. I Built a Professional Video Editor. Here's Why.

#a11y #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jonas G Mwambimbi

Jun 11

How I stopped re-resolving dependencies without rewriting pip

#fastapi #python #opensource #software

2 min read

eidas-pro for eidas-pro

May 29

Introducing OpenEUDI: An Open-Source SDK for EU Digital Identity Verification

#opensource #webdev #typescript #eidas

4 min read

Qimin Zhao

May 29

Turning first-pass host evidence into a DFIR handoff report

#ai #security #opensource #incidentresponse

4 min read

Truffle

May 29

The closed PR is the policy file

#opensource #programming #ai #github

6 min read

member_0af6418a

May 29

CodeWhale accepted our PRs: better coding agents need better harnesses

#ai #opensource #programming #github

4 min read

Alexander Velikiy

May 29

great_cto: what's new — three features and the move to Opus 4.8

#ai #devtools #claude #opensource

3 min read

Kin Pan Ho

May 29

Why I built tmpdrop: a self-hosted, expiring file drop

#node #opensource #ai #security

4 min read

Akshay

May 29

KAlert.js v2.0.0 — Modern JavaScript Alert Dialog Library with WebView Support

#javascript #webdev #opensource #html

4 min read

Qimin Zhao

May 29

How to triage Java memory-shell clues without unsafe default heap dumps

#security #java #incidentresponse #opensource

3 min read

May 29

I review AI output for a living. Here's me getting it wrong — with the receipt.

#ai #llm #opensource #productivity

3 min read

sk8ordie84

May 29

Lock #2: the first thing PRML falsified was its own distribution hypothesis

#machinelearning #opensource #compliance #ai

2 min read

Qimin Zhao

May 29

How to triage a suspected WebShell without giving AI a shell

#incidentresponse #security #linux #opensource

3 min read

May 29

Catching CMS bugs before deploy in Next.js

#nextjs #cms #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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