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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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Prog. Kanishk Raj

Feb 7

Secure-by-Design Programming: Why Languages Must Evolve Beyond Middleware

#programming #opensource #performance #coding

2 min read

Farhad Rahimi Klie

Feb 8

GitHub Reality: What You Really Need to Know About GitHub

#github #git #opensource #programming

3 min read

Teja Pudi

Feb 7

LicGen — Offline License Generator (CLI + Web UI)

#showdev #cli #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Feb 7

Why Modern Programming Feels Fragmented — And What ProXPL Is Trying To Fix

#discuss #programming #opensource #showdev

2 min read

Trang Le

Feb 9

Algolia for Self-Improvement: Find Your Next Open Source Projects In Seconds

#devchallenge #algoliachallenge #ai #opensource

3 min read

Nicolas Francisquelo Tacca

Feb 7

OpenClaw’s Security Nightmare: Lessons in Agentic Engineering Era

#security #ai #opensource #programming

8 min read

Feb 7

Introducing Mutineer: Chaos Engineering for Elixir Function Calls

#elixir #testing #opensource

1 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 14

Update: Scaling Back The Foundation

#discuss #community #career #opensource

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 6

Build apps for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini using MCP UI components from Flowbite

#mcp #ai #chatgpt #opensource

6 min read

Prateek Chaudhary

Feb 7

Operating AI in Production Is an Ops Problem

#devops #ai #opensource #observability

2 min read

Feb 7

How to Make Any Codebase Multilingual Without Touching the Logic

#programming #vscode #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jagadesh Padimala

Feb 7

I Built 66+ Free Browser Tools That Never Upload Your Files

#webdev #opensource #javascript #webassembly

2 min read

Yuchen Lin

Feb 6

Designing a Drift-Resistant Memory System for LLMs

#ai #opensource #systemdesign #webdev

3 min read

Feb 11

Title: Hardening Open Source Apps: Preventing Stored XSS in User-Injected Code

#javascript #opensource #security #webdev

2 min read

THARANITHARAN K

Feb 11

Solving Tamil Font Rendering Issues in Flutter PDFs: Introducing tamil_pdf_shaper

#flutter #pdf #i18n #opensource

2 min read

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