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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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Feb 12

Why Your Screen Recordings Need View Analytics

#opensource #webdev #productivity #video

4 min read

Feb 12

I Built a Free Synthetic Data Generator — Here's How (React + Tailwind)

#react #webdev #testing #opensource

3 min read

Feb 11

AI-SLOP Detector v2.7.0 — Why We Built a Linter We Actually Use

#opensource #vscode #codequality #python

2 min read

cpf

Feb 12

PQP Language

#programming #opensource #cli #backend

1 min read

Guilherme Bento

Feb 11

New Project: Open Cardinal

#rust #lua #sideprojects #opensource

1 min read

Rayel

Feb 11

Loi 25 du Québec : Toolkit Open-Source pour la Conformité en 5 Minutes

#webdev #opensource #javascript #privacy

2 min read

Niccolò Olivieri Achille

Feb 13

Why I built yet another release tool for npm

#javascript #npm #opensource #devtools

5 min read

Khadirullah Mohammad

Feb 11

I Built an Interactive SVG Viewer Because Static Diagrams Deserve Better

#javascript #webdev #opensource #svg

3 min read

Feb 11

Your AI Agent's API Keys Are Probably in Plaintext Right Now

#security #rust #opensource #openclaw

4 min read

Feb 11

Bifrost vs Helicone: Choosing Between Two High-Performance LLM Gateways

#ai #programming #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Hiroshi Watanabe

Feb 11

A Hands-On Introduction to Restricted Boltzmann Machines with a Minimal NumPy Implementation

#machinelearning #python #deeplearning #opensource

6 min read

Feb 11

Prototyping for Agent-First Apps

#ai #agents #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Feb 11

What’s missing, what’s coming, and what’s worth the wait: FOSDEM PGDay Recap

#opensource #postgres #postgressql #community

3 min read

Livrädo Sandoval

Feb 11

How to Generate Beautiful PyPI Badges for Your README (With Real-Time Stats)

#github #opensource #python #tutorial

4 min read

Feb 11

LLMs have a memory problem. So I built a fix.

#ai #memory #opensource #database

1 min read

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