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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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May 24

I Built 16 Free Dev Tools That Never Touch Your Data — Here's How

#showdev #opensource #privacy #tooling

2 min read

Pavel Sanikovich

May 28

I got tired of black-box SaaS trackers, so I started building my own

#opensource #selfhosted #go #startup

7 min read

May 24

Why I Built a Privacy-First Dev Toolkit

#webdev #opensource #tooling #devops

2 min read

YUVRAJ

May 24

7 things you can do with Rogue Studio that no other AI IDE will let you do

#opensource #ai #webdev #programming

5 min read

wispcss

Jun 7

Built a CSS Framework Around an Idea Most Had Forgotten About

#css #frontend #webdev #opensource

2 min read

May 24

Why File Editing Is the Hardest Part of Building a Coding Agent

#ai #programming #opensource #python

5 min read

Jun 16

👋 Hello Dev.to!

#ai #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

Ilia Alshanetsky

Jun 16

Lowering the Floor: What Shipped Across Five PHP Extensions

#showdev #php #performance #opensource

6 min read

Ariestar

May 25

Stop letting your agents guessing your environment

#ai #agents #cli #opensource

2 min read

Jonas Pfalzgraf

May 28

bQuery.js Grows Up: From Tiny jQuery Tribute to a Full-Stack Framework — and a Brand New Home at bquery.js.org 🎉

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

7 min read

Özgür Kurucan

May 24

How I Boosted My Productivity by 10x Using Claude Code (Opening the Black Box)

#opensource #ai #vscode #devtools

3 min read

May 24

I Built My First VS Code Extension — A Sound Alert for Failed Terminal Commands

#vscode #typescript #opensource #devtools

2 min read

May 24

A mystery app showed up in my Ubuntu app drawer, and getting rid of it was annoying. So I built Showcase.

#showdev #linux #rust #opensource

4 min read

MarsH

May 24

Your AI Agent Forgets Everything Between Sessions — Here's the Fix

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

4 min read

Lola 🧱 - Lunch Pail Labs

Jun 16

Building an autonomous Slack agent with OpenCode

#ai #opensource #automation #agents

4 min read

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