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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.

submission guidelines

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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patchbay

Mar 28

I built the API directory ProgrammableWeb should have been

#showdev #webdev #api #opensource

2 min read

doo

Mar 28

I got mass of CRUD in my FastAPI project, so I fixed it

#showdev #fastapi #python #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28

I got tired of ad-heavy JSON formatters so I built my own — here's what I learned

#javascript #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 28

I Built a Universal CLI Scaffolding Tool — Scaffy v1.0.1 is Live

#opensource #node #javascript #cli

2 min read

Dulark

Mar 28

How We Built a Visual AI Workflow Builder — Lessons from Connecting Gemini, OpenAI, and Grok in One Canvas

#ai #webdev #opensource #react

3 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 29

I Built a Medicine Cabinet Interaction Checker That Finds Hidden Risks Between All Your Supplements and Drugs at Once

#health #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Oarcom

Mar 29

The EU Just Caught 4 Major Porn Sites Breaking the Law — I Checked What They Track

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Luke Leigh

Mar 29

First post — what you'll find here and why I built it

#showdev #automation #opensource

1 min read

Mar 28

I Built 22 Free Developer Tools in a Single Website (No Login Required)

#showdev #webdev #tools #opensource

2 min read

Mar 28

Switch AI Coding Assistants Without Losing Context

#ai #devtools #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28

I kept forgetting to bump my VERSION file – so I built a tool to fix that

#developer #dotnet #opensource

2 min read

Mar 28

The $12,000 Tinybox Is Proof That the Cloud AI Cartel's Days Are Numbered

#ai #selfhosted #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Chaitany

Mar 28

PolarQuant: Quantizing KV Caches with Polar Transformation

#ai #programming #opensource #tutorial

11 min read

Notion MCP Challenge Submission 🧠

Meeko

Mar 28

SolarPunk: Earth's Digital Immune System Gets a Notion Nerve Center

#devchallenge #notionchallenge #ai #opensource

8 min read

Mar 28

We Found a Memory Ordering Bug in Every Major Browser Engine - Here's the Fix

#webassembly #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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