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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 22

Operationalizing Digital Goods Sales in Restricted Regimes: The Uncomfortable Truth

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

2 min read

gyani

May 26

How a photo-blind dating engine actually ranks people (the TypeScript)

#showdev #algorithms #opensource #typescript

9 min read

Dangel Jesus Rodríguez

May 21

Per-user cost attribution for your AI APP

#ai #saas #opensource #agents

3 min read

Enforra

May 21

System prompts are not a security boundary for AI agents

#ai #security #opensource #agents

2 min read

arturo melgarejo

May 21

De CSRF a RCE: una visita web cuesta una shell en OpenYak

#cybersecurity #infosec #opensource #security

9 min read

May 21

I Built a Free PDF to Image Converter That Runs 100% in Your Browser 🖼️⚡

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

4 min read

May 21

Contributing to Laravel Maestro Starter Kits Without Losing Your Changes

#laravel #opensource #php

4 min read

May 22

Digital Products Are Not for the Faint of Heart

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

2 min read

Aimilios Vikatos

May 21

I tested cheap vs expensive LLMs across 3 real agent tasks. The cheap model won every time.

#ai #python #llm #opensource

4 min read

May 21

Add Your Own Component to Bombie in 5 Edits

#react #tutorial #opensource #materialui

6 min read

May 21

Lessons from Building Bombie: SPA Deep Links, CSP, and an Iframe Preview

#react #webdev #opensource #deployment

6 min read

Chad Wiley

May 21

CrimsonOS: Building a Mobile OS from the Firmware Up

#opensource #security #osdev #arm

2 min read

May 21

Holy Typos, Batman! How I Built 'SpellJump'

#showdev #programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

May 22

Building a Global Digital Store in a Country that Hates Cryptocurrency

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

2 min read

May 26

Stop posting boring black-and-white screenshots of your code. I built a free tool to fix this.

#webdev #javascript #frontend #opensource

2 min read

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