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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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Owen

Apr 27

Llama 4 API Access: Complete Developer Guide (Scout, Maverick, ofox)

#ai #llama #opensource #meta

5 min read

Emad Gadou

Apr 27

I've been curating FOSS & privacy apps on Telegram for 8 months. Here's how I do it.

#showdev #opensource #privacy #productivity

3 min read

Eduardo Villão

Apr 27

Masky.js: A Lightweight Alternative to Inputmask, Cleave.js, and IMask

#javascript #webdev #opensource #frontend

2 min read

Asif Iqbal

Apr 27

🚀 Introducing Laravel Shortcodes – Bring WordPress-like Shortcodes to Laravel

#showdev #laravel #opensource #php

1 min read

Aleksandar Vučenić

May 20

Gary Winston Won: How “Antitrust” Predicted the Fate of Developers

#ai #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Apr 27

OpenClaw Internals: Architecting AI Agents with Kernel Syscalls (Tools) and Userland Logic (Skills)

#ai #linux #openclaw #opensource

2 min read

Antony Developer

Apr 27

OptimaOS: A Rust Kernel That Boots on Real x86_64 Hardware

#rust #opensource

6 min read

Apr 27

Blindsight, STRIX, and the Engineering Problem of a Swarm Without a Central Brain

#rust #ai #opensource #robotics

3 min read

Brad Kinnard for Aftermath Technologies Ltd

May 20

Cryptographic Forensics for AI Coding Agent Sessions

#ai #security #opensource #devops

4 min read

Alan West

May 1

How to Set Up a Self-Hosted Forum When You're Tired of Renting Your Community

#selfhosted #devops #opensource #community

6 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 27

Happy 45th Birthday, GUI. Meet Your New Power User.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #gui

3 min read

Meat Boy

Apr 26

Hangout Planner - fighting cognitive atrophy and full process of making app

#sideprojects #react #go #opensource

8 min read

kent-tokyo

May 20

I Built a Next-Gen DNS Diagnostic CLI in Rust That Visualizes DNSSEC Trust Chains

#rust #dns #cli #opensource

6 min read

red blue

Apr 27

How keystrum turns a QWERTY keyboard into a 6-chord strum machine

#showdev #webaudio #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Apr 27

I tracked every Claude Code call for 30 days. Here's the cost breakdown that justified switching to Gemma.

#claude #ollama #productivity #opensource

7 min read

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