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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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Rhys | Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Apr 26

I built ssmctl because AWS SSM deserved a better user experience

#aws #devops #opensource #go

2 min read

Eugene

Apr 26

pg_ilib: Compact Typed Binary Serialization for PostgreSQL

#postgres #database #c #opensource

4 min read

janardan

Apr 26

I built a hiring platform that watches engineers work in a real CAD tool

#ai #webdev #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Alan West

Apr 26

Harmonist: Zero-Dependency AI Agent Orchestration Worth Watching

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Syed Ishtiyaq Ahmed

May 1

Rethinking Focus Apps: An Awareness-Based Approach Instead of Blocking

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Hridesh

Apr 26

Fixing My Laptop by Contributing to the Linux Kernel

#linux #opensource #beginners #programming

6 min read

Apr 27

I open‑sourced a free, MIT‑licensed library of Claude prompts and I’ll send $100 as a thanks for accepted community prompt packs

#ai #claude #programming #opensource

2 min read

Francis Okocha-Ojeah

May 10

I built a CLI to catch i18n bugs. It found 74 issues in my own app before they shipped

#reactnative #i18n #cli #opensource

2 min read

Apr 27

Token Budget Negotiator

#ai #promptengineering #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Sudhanshu Ambastha

Apr 26

Building Java Projects Without the Bloat: Introducing JAR Cart and the No-Build Extension Pack

#java #vscode #opensource #productivity

2 min read

May 19

Is Slow Growth Better Than Viral Hype in Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #github #productivity

2 min read

Apr 26

AutoResearchClaw Tries to Turn One Research Idea Into a Draft Paper

#opensource #ai #python #tools

4 min read

Owen

May 10

Dunena Update: What Happened After I Over-Engineered My First Project 😅

#opensource #zig #typescript #programming

6 min read

sentinel-safety

Apr 26

False Positives in Child Safety AI: Architecture Tradeoffs and Why They Matter

#security #webdev #ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 26

ComfyUI's $500M moment is really about creator control

#ai #opensource #productivity #machinelearning

3 min read

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