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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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Apr 21

I Built a CLI That Generates Production-Ready Auth Backends in 30 Seconds (While Working From My Phone)

#node #opensource #authentication #cli

3 min read

Apr 7

use-local-llm: React Hooks for AI That Actually Work Locally

#react #typescript #opensource #ai

5 min read

Apr 7

ACadSharp.Image: Render DXF and DWG to images in .NET without AutoCAD

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Apr 7

vue-multiple-themes v4: Dynamic Multi-Theme Support for Vue 2 & 3

#vue #typescript #opensource #css

2 min read

Apr 7

The UAE Dirham Currency Symbol (U+20C3): Why It Took 18 Years and How to Use It Today

#react #typescript #opensource #unicode

4 min read

Apr 7

dirham: The UAE Dirham Symbol (U+20C3) as Web Font, CSS Utility & React Component

#react #typescript #opensource #unicode

2 min read

Apr 7

A Beginner's Guide to Running Your Own AI Assistant for $12 a Month

#ai #beginners #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Abdelrahman Mohamed

Apr 7

I spent 7 years fighting Firestore's worst problems. So I built a tool to fix them.

#showdev #firebase #opensource #typescript

5 min read

Apr 8

38.8% Win Rate, +21.83% P&L: Why Being Wrong Most of the Time Still Prints Money

#opensource #ai #python

2 min read

GBLMX

Apr 8

UniMat 2.0 – Universal Matrix Framework in Pure C99

#c #opensource #algorithms #programming

1 min read

udaysaai

Apr 7

I built the "Internet" for AI Agents (Open Source) 🍄

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

2 min read

Nek.12

Apr 7

I got tired of every existing coding agent. So I built my own - Builder.

#agenticcoding #opensource #codingagent #builder

6 min read

Apr 9

A Go + React monorepo starter with auth and multi-tenancy

#go #react #webdev #opensource

4 min read

victoria nyamai

Apr 7

My Journey Contributing to Django Simple Deploy: Improving the PythonAnywhere Plugin for Beginners

#django #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Patryk

Apr 8

I built an open-source nuclear & ballistic simulator — 176 weapons, real blast physics, 3D globe

#showdev #python #csharp #opensource

3 min read

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