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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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Anish L

Mar 31

I built shadcn/ui for React Native— here's why and what I learned

#reactnative #opensource #expo #typescript

3 min read

Mou

Mar 31

I open-sourced a GStreamer plugin suite for KLV metadata workflows

#gstreamer #stanag4609 #opensource #c

2 min read

10billionpercent

Mar 31

React without React? How Wagtail Changed My View of UI

#webdev #wagtailcms #opensource

2 min read

Mar 31

How I Built a Browser-Based GTFS Viewer That Runs Entirely Without a Server

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Includes live table and cache-hit stats

Apr 11

I Put pg_stat_activity in My SQL Client — And Added a Kill Button

#postgres #database #devops #opensource

6 min read

Mike Dolan

Apr 4

The Session Protocol That Fixed Claude Code's Amnesia Problem

#claudecode #productivity #ai #opensource

8 min read

Mallagari Sri Datta

Mar 31

Avoid Vulnerable Build: Light onto Cryptographic Source Code Security

#devops #git #opensource #security

4 min read

Mar 31

I Built a Free Compliance Auditor for AI Agent APIs — 32 Checks in 5 Seconds

#ai #web3 #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Mar 30

How I Used Three.js To Create a Real-Time Solar System Simulation In The Browser

#showdev #webdev #opensource #threejs

2 min read

May 4

LLM Behavior Diff Model Update Detector

#mlops #machinelearning #opensource #llm

7 min read

shashank

Mar 31

Building a Face Authentication System for Linux (Using PAM, systemd, and ONNX)

#linux #security #opensource #programming

2 min read

nghiahsgs

Apr 1

I built a Claude Code skill that generates 50,000+ unique slide designs — and killed the "AI slop" aesthetic

#claudecode #opensource #webdev #design

2 min read

Mar 31

I Control My Server from Telegram with AI — OpenClaw Setup Guide

#devops #ai #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

fromthearchitect

May 4

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Part 3: Your First App"

#gnome #rust #opensource #gtk

14 min read

0p4n1k

Mar 31

I built a Python deobfuscator using AST transformers - Noctyra

#python #security #reverseengineering #opensource

1 min read

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