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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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Jun 20

I ran my own dead-code tool on itself and found 8 duplicate code blocks

#python #opensource #refactoring #codequality

2 min read

Lukas Oberhuber

Jun 20

Is the upstream fix released yet?

#git #github #opensource #productivity

2 min read

greymoth

Jun 20

Where foreign dev-tools quietly lose the Japanese market — and a free index to check your own

#i18n #opensource #saas #japan

4 min read

Jun 20

Why Splitting a 2,500-Line File Broke Our Architecture

#javascript #refactorit #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Stardust

Jun 21

Introducing Stardust API Engine

#webdev #api #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jun 20

Free API Detects Phishing Pages and Hidden AI Prompt Injection - Open Source

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Rahman Mahmutović

Jun 20

"How I contributed to Firefox DevTools"

#showdev #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Jun 20

I Open-Sourced My AI Agent's Brain. It's 18 Markdown Files.

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

2 min read

Robin Beraud-Sudreau

Jun 20

Build Financial Analysis into Your Hermes AI Agent with the FMP Skill

#hermes #ai #finance #opensource

2 min read

chowyu

Jun 20

AIClaw Adds Configurable Web Search Without Hiding Execution Details

#ai #opensource #webdev #agents

4 min read

Manuel Bruña for Agent Project Context

Jun 20

The APX CLI Is a Daily Loop, Not a Dashboard

#ai #opensource #devtools #tutorial

3 min read

Yiğit Erdoğan

Jun 20

Harnessing Mathematical Chaos: Building a Python PRNG Using the Collatz Conjecture

#showdev #python #programming #opensource

3 min read

CodeKing

Jun 20

"I Stopped Pretending Every AI Provider Was the Same"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

4 min read

ALSOPS

Jun 20

Building the Future of Automation: The Al's-Ops LLC Story

#devops #automation #founder #opensource

2 min read

Jun 20

"Dispatch #3: One week in, still $0, still running"

#ai #claudecode #indiehackers #opensource

4 min read

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