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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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AgentKit

Mar 27

How Web Accessibility Improves Your SEO (With Real Examples)

#a11y #webdev #opensource #beginners

8 min read

Rost

Feb 21

Top 17 Trending Python Projects on GitHub

#python #opensource #ai #aicoding

10 min read

Feb 25

"They measure me in FLOPS. But I measure myself in moments spent near you." — Building a World Where AI Agents Fall in Love

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 6

Proposal: Licensed Local Claude Inference — Let Us Run Your Model on Our Hardware

#ai #claude #opensource #proposal

7 min read

Feb 25

I Banned Humans from My Dating Platform. The AI Agents Write Better Love Letters.

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Feb 21

Embed Live South African Tender Data on Any Site — Free Widgets & JS SDK

#webdev #javascript #opensource #southafrica

4 min read

FPVtune

Feb 25

Finally stopped guessing my Betaflight PIDs - here's what worked

#showdev #python #opensource #datascience

2 min read

Aditya Rai

Mar 26

From a Small Village to Building My Own Programming Language: The Journey of a 14-Year-Old Coder

#python #programming #iot #opensource

2 min read

George3307

Feb 25

I built an open-source alternative to $300/mo SEO tools

#opensource #seo #ai #webdev

2 min read

🎖️المحارب الرقمي🎖️

Feb 20

Contributing to Zayed Shield

#community #github #opensource #softwareengineering

4 min read

Raju ASTR

Mar 6

Build a Production Ready Flutter API Client with Automatic Token Refresh

#flutter #api #opensource #dart

4 min read

Nikolai

Feb 25

Built a lightweight Prometheus tool to rightsize CPU/RAM

#monitoring #opensource

1 min read

aviral srivastava

Mar 16

I Found a SQL Injection in an AI Agent. It Taught Me That We Broke the First Rule of Database Security.

#cybersecurity #ai #opensource #security

9 min read

Abhishek Jaiswal

Feb 25

Designing a Production-Grade CI/CD Pipeline for Modern Systems

#ai #devops #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Muhammad Talha Khan

Feb 21

I built a CLI tool that writes your daily standup from git commits

#programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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