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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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Namra

Apr 4

E-spots Bracket Manager

#php #opensource #gamedev

1 min read

Apr 3

How we built a terminal UI framework that only repaints what changed.

#typescript #react #ai #opensource

2 min read

Sid

Apr 3

Which AI models are actually "brain-like"? I built an open-source benchmark to measure it

#ai #python #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

khanhnam-nathan

Apr 4

I got tired of structural anti-patterns, so I built an AST-based code cleaner for Python 🧹

#showdev #python #opensource #programming

1 min read

Mohammad Raziei

Apr 5

When Constraints Build Tools

#python #opensource #javascript #devtools

4 min read

Apr 4

Pomota — A Distraction-Free Pomodoro Timer You Can Self-Host

#showdev #opensource #privacy #productivity

1 min read

Apr 4

Cross-Promote Your Android Apps for Free — No Ad Network Needed

#showdev #android #java #opensource

1 min read

Ryan Swift

Apr 29

Forking Paseo: Mobile vibe coding for me

#ai #agents #vibecoding #opensource

5 min read

Apr 3

Stop Guessing, Start Seeing: Multi-Model Observability with LLMxRay 🕵️‍♂️

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Apr 4

Pomota: A Beautiful Cross-Platform Pomodoro Timer Built with Tauri

#opensource

1 min read

Apr 4

PotatoTimer: A Pomodoro App That FORCES You to Take a Break

#opensource

1 min read

Apr 4

How I Handle App Updates in Android Without Google Play (23+ Stars)

#opensource

1 min read

Apr 4

Cross-Promote Your Android Apps for Free — HouseAds2 Library

#opensource

1 min read

Apr 17

My Outreachy Contribution Journey with Firefox

#opensource #firefox #outreachy #learning

2 min read

Apr 4

I Built an Unofficial Google Calendar Desktop Widget for Windows, Mac & Linux

#opensource

1 min read

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