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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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Lyra

Apr 20

Keep Your Base OS Clean: Practical `systemd-sysext` for Linux Tools and Overrides

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

May 24

Three researchers. One GPU. Two years. How the RX 580 became an AI platform.

#ai #amd #hystory #opensource

3 min read

xaip-agent

Apr 20

A Claude Code hook that warns you before calling a low-trust MCP server

#ai #mcp #claude #opensource

4 min read

BerSerCarrrrrrrrrrr

Apr 20

I built ChatRel — applying 7 psychology frameworks to your chat history

#opensource #python #psychology #nlp

2 min read

leaker

May 24

I built a desktop browser that runs your userscripts without a browser extension

#rust #tauri #opensource #webdev

5 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

The Brutal Truth About Using AI for My Personal Knowledge Base: What They Don't Tell You in the Documentation

#ai #opensource

5 min read

Apr 20

I got fed up with GitHub Trending, so I built my own ranker. Here's what I learned.

#showdev #opensource #github #webdev

2 min read

Debjit Dey

May 24

Tracking Chaos: Building a Real-Time Flight Anomaly Engine with Django, Celery, and Machine Learning

#django #react #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Apr 20

Meet Friedrich Niche: The OpenClaw Personality That Refuses to Make You Comfortable

#openclaw #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 20

I Turned a Discord Community into an SEO-Friendly Website

#seo #discord #community #opensource

2 min read

Priyanshu Doshi

May 13

Building DevTrack — An Open Source GitHub Productivity Dashboard

#opensource #nextjs #typescript #webdev

1 min read

doyimmi

May 24

Sonata — Lavalink in pure TypeScript, no Java

#lavalink #discord #typescript #opensource

1 min read

OanhDuong

Apr 20

How I Built token-ninja — A Claude Code Companion That Saves Tokens on Shell Commands

#claudecode #opensource #devtools #token

2 min read

Maksim Kochetkov

May 13

I went looking for a one-curl HTML host. I built one instead.

#showdev #kotlin #ai #opensource

6 min read

Mark

May 6

A much faster mgsub

#showdev #opensource #performance #programming

2 min read

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