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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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Mar 28

Zitadel Has a Free API: Self-Hosted Identity and Auth That Replaces Auth0

#security #webdev #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Mar 28

Windmill Has a Free API: Open-Source Alternative to Retool and Zapier for Developer Workflows

#automation #opensource #webdev #tutorial

2 min read

Dariusz Newecki

Mar 28

How one missing line broke months of autonomous self-improvement — and what fixing it revealed about constitutional software governance

#ai #aigovernance #opensource #python

4 min read

Ray

Mar 28

I built an overnight strategy tournament to find the best trading algorithm while I sleep

#python #algorithmictrading #opensource #selfhosted

3 min read

Sabahattin Kalkan

Mar 28

I built a CLI that diagnoses your code before you ship

#nestjs #typescript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Robert Leszczyński

Mar 29

Booting Robikatsu — Day 0 Rebuilding my life while building an AI startup operating system

#buildinpublic #opensource #ai #programming

4 min read

Mar 28

📦 I Built 3 Astro Integrations and Shipped Them to npm — Here's What They Do

#astro #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Mar 28

Distributed AI platform — task parallelism instead of model splitting, and why every other approach has it backwards

#opensource #ai #python #distributedcomputing

2 min read

seeksky

Mar 28

💥 I think dev jobs are about to change (this github repo is why)

#ai #opensource #agents #webdev

1 min read

Mar 28

Looking for contributors for an AI learning platform (open source)

#ai #learning #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Mar 28

I built a CLI that migrates your JS codebase to TypeScript automatically using AI

#ai #python #opensource #buildinpublic

1 min read

freerave

Mar 28

Building CodeTune v1.2.0: Islamic Date Tracking & Audio Sync in a VS Code Extension

#vscode #typescript #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Mar 28

Sonic Has a Free API: Add Lightning-Fast Full-Text Search to Your App Without Running Elasticsearch

#webdev #api #opensource #rust

3 min read

Mar 28

Mojo Has a Free Language: Python Syntax With C++ Speed — The AI Programming Language That's 68,000x Faster Than Python

#ai #python #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28

Cedar Has a Free API: Amazon's Authorization Language That Makes Access Control Actually Readable

#webdev #api #opensource #aws

3 min read

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