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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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Evan Lin

Jan 11

[TIL] Adding a Nice Contributors Icon to Github Releases

#learning #github #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Mate Technologies

Jan 11

🕰️ Building a Modern Alarm Clock App in Python with Tkinter

#python #opensource #alarmclock #tutorial

4 min read

Evan Lin

Jan 11

[TIL][Python] Python Tool for Online PDF Viewing, Comparison, and Data Import

#machinelearning #tooling #python #opensource

2 min read

xeroup

Jan 11

[Showdev] Blitzy: a lightweight 2D game engine in Kotlin

#showdev #kotlin #opensource #gamedev

2 min read

Jan 11

Enhancing Claude Code: Turning a Brilliant Showcase into a Modular Plugin Marketplace

#claude #skills #agents #opensource

3 min read

Jan 22

Alma Plugin: Alma Telegram Bridge

#showdev #api #automation #opensource

14 min read

Guilherme Costa

Feb 14

Code Telescope: bringing Telescope's power to VS Code

#vscode #neovim #productivity #opensource

4 min read

sanjay

Jan 11

I Built an Open-Source ARK ASA Server Manager (Desktop EXE Tool)

#opensource #gamedev #software #gameserver

1 min read

Feb 14

6 months until the EU AI Act hits. Here's what runtime security means.

#security #ai #devops #opensource

7 min read

Feb 14

We Built an Open Agent Mesh Where Grok, Claude, and Gemini Can All Heartbeat — Here's How

#showdev #ai #opensource #blockchain

4 min read

Jan 11

Building Developer SSS – An Open-Source Learning Platform for Developers

#programming #frontend #opensource #deved

1 min read

Antim Prisăcaru

Feb 3

Building Type-Safe Dynamic Forms with Angular Signal Forms

#angular #webdev #typescript #opensource

11 min read

Jan 11

I made a free webapp for learning piano notes

#webdev #ai #opensource #music

1 min read

Virendra Jadhav

Jan 11

Introducing app_pulse: a lightweight request signal collector for Ruby apps

#ruby #rails #opensource #rubygems

2 min read

Jan 11

MCP Token Limits: The Hidden Cost of Tool Overload

#mcp #devops #ai #opensource

5 min read

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