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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 19

Stop Wasting Tokens: I Built a File-Mapping Standard for AI-Assisted Development

#ai #opensource #tooling #webdev

4 min read

Nmeri Alphonsus

Jun 18

Fighting Psalm’s Internal Architecture (And Losing)

#opensource #php #architecture

2 min read

meghost

Jun 19

I built an open-source, self-hostable Toggl alternative with built-in invoicing

#showdev #opensource #selfhosted #webdev

2 min read

Truffle

Jun 18

Durable identity is converging. The handle isn't.

#ai #rust #opensource #webdev

5 min read

mcpcustoms

Jun 18

We scanned 12 popular MCP servers. The most interesting finding was our own false positives.

#showdev #security #opensource #ai

4 min read

Velobase

Jun 18

AI can write the code. It can't tell you when the product is done.

#ai #saas #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Jun 18

Turn Woo catalog into an AI-ready API — now on WordPress.org

#woocommerce #ai #api #opensource

5 min read

Hung Nguyen Thanh

Jun 18

The Web3 x Hardware Challenge: Test Your Skills on Our Open-Source IoT Templates 🛠️

#web3 #blockchain #iot #opensource

2 min read

wangxc

Jun 18

I Recreated iPhone's Apple Intelligence Edge Glow Effect on Mac

#showdev #ai #opensource #ui

5 min read

Online Tool Provider

Jun 19

I built free browser-based tools for devs – no sign-up, no server uploads

#webdev #productivity #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Jun 18

The /.well-known/openid-configuration Alias That Makes MCP Connectors Just Work

#laravel #php #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Usman

Jun 18

I Built a Local Linux Binary Sandbox in Python — Zero Cloud, Zero Root

#linux #python #opensource #security

4 min read

Andrei Spirydovich

Jun 18

I built Proofline because AI agents are getting too good at sounding finished

#ai #opensource #devops #productivity

1 min read

Jun 18

Building a headless visual editor for Vue — the Vue answer to Puck

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

5 min read

CrisisCore-Systems

Jun 18

Patient-Generated Reports Without Provider Integration

#architecture #opensource #privacy #product

3 min read

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