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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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Feb 17

NoamVC v0.3 — We deleted 3,500 lines and the app got better

#webrtc #rust #tauri #opensource

4 min read

Seryl Lns

Feb 17

Building a Rails Engine #3 — Configuration DSL: Making the Gem Flexible

#ruby #rails #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Marco

Jan 14

I've open-sourced my document management system (built with Go, htmx and SQLite)

#opensource #go #webdev #saas

3 min read

Feb 6

Como programar uma linguagem de programação? - Pituguês

#community #opensource #programming #python

11 min read

Touseef Ibn Khaleel

Jan 14

Gaze Guard: Your Privacy-First AI Shield Against Unwanted Online Content

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Yuval

Jan 18

I Built a Markup Language for AI Agent Task Output

#claude #opensource #productivity #ai

2 min read

NextBlock

Jan 14

NextBlock CMS: The Great Migration & The Road to E-commerce (Phase 3)

#discuss #architecture #opensource #showdev

1 min read

MUHAMMAD USMAN AWAN

Feb 6

1.5M Tokens Exposed: How Moltbook’s 🦀 AI Social Network Tripped on Security

#discuss #ai #security #opensource

7 min read

Feb 15

Aurora OS.js : I built a web-tech OS. It’s kinda an OS. Fine... it’s a hacking game.

#webdev #gamedev #reactnative #opensource

4 min read

Jan 15

How I Built an Offline AI Orchestrator in 100% Rust (Goodbye, OpenAI Bills)

#programming #opensource #ai #rust

3 min read

Jaideep Parashar

Feb 17

How Contributing to AI Open Source Projects Can Make You a Thought Leader

#ai #opensource #programming #learning

4 min read

Feb 17

Husky configuration in Letta Code codebase.

#opensource #lettacode #cli #precommit

3 min read

Feb 17

AGENTS.md Files Don't Work the Way You Think — A 138-Repo Study Proves It

#ai #devrel #opensource #productivity

11 min read

Touseef Ibn Khaleel

Jan 14

Gaze Guard: How On-Device AI is Revolutionizing Content Moderation in Your Browser

#ai #productivity #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Girff

Jan 14

I Open-Sourced a Tool to Detect Weak JWT Secrets 🔐

#cli #opensource #security #tooling

2 min read

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