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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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Mar 24

Is Your Crypto Bounty Token a Security? A Developer's Guide to the Howey Test

#crypto #blockchain #opensource #security

8 min read

Ana Julia Bittencourt

Mar 11

Using namespaces to manage multiple projects from a single OpenClaw agent

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Mar 24

I built a load tester with an AI diagnosis layer—because no existing tool does both

#opensource #langchain #webdev #ai

3 min read

Alex Acebo

Mar 12

🦀I Got Tired of Rewriting Macro Boilerplate — So I Built a Template Engine for Proc Macros

#showdev #rust #opensource #programming

8 min read

Mar 14

Wiki.js vs DokuWiki: Which Self-Hosted Wiki?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Mar 24

hash23 - A constexpr implementation of different hashing algorithms

#cpp #programming #opensource #security

1 min read

Ibrahim Olawoyin

Mar 24

Discovering Fedora: My First Days in an Open Source Community That Actually Lives Its Values

#beginners #community #linux #opensource

6 min read

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Mar 11

Awesome-mac: The GitHub Repo I Bookmark for Every Mac Setup (99.8K Stars)

#github #opensource #productivity #resources

5 min read

Mar 15

Self-Hosted Alternatives to Google Contacts

#google #opensource #privacy #resources

6 min read

Oleksander

Mar 24

Your AI forgets everything — this layer fixes that without retraining

#rust #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Cristian Tala S.

Mar 12

Cómo le hice reverse engineering a la API de Skool

#webdev #tutorial #startup #opensource

3 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Mar 11

How to Deploy Your Vibe-Coded App to Production with Claude + OSC MCP

#ai #mcp #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Mar 24

How the WPPF Update Helper Connects Private Plugins to Native WordPress Updates

#webdev #wordpress #opensource #php

5 min read

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Mar 11

1Code: Managing Multiple AI Coding Agents Without Terminal Hell

#agents #ai #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Amirmahdi Sultani

Mar 15

I Got Tired of React Router Boilerplate — So I Built Next.js Routing for Vite

#react #nextjs #vite #opensource

5 min read

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