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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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Soroush

Jan 7

The Open Source Alternative to IDM ( Mac / Linux / Windows )

#github #opensource #productivity #tooling

1 min read

Jan 19

I built a free, privacy-first WakaTime alternative (using Go & MongoDB) for VS Code & Neovim with Zero Latency

#go #neovim #vscode #opensource

4 min read

Feb 9

283 ClawHub Skills Are Leaking Your Secrets. VirusTotal Can't Fix This.

#ai #security #devops #opensource

4 min read

Wintyx57

Feb 9

Your AI Agent Just Got a Credit Card: Introducing x402 Bazaar

#ai #webdev #opensource #blockchain

7 min read

Feb 9

I Turned a Webcam Into an Ambient Light Sensor

#rust #python #linux #opensource

7 min read

Alistair Rowan Whitcombe

Jan 11

Tailwind CSS Is Not Dying We’re Just Bad at Reading Headlines

#tailwindcss #css #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Willie

Feb 9

How to Sync AI Skills Across Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Codex in 2 Minutes

#ai #opensource #tutorial #productivity

4 min read

Akshay Kolhapure

Feb 9

I Built an Open-Source Authentication Engine for Node.js (with the Help of AI)

#ai #opensource #backend #node

3 min read

Ravi Kumar

Feb 9

I Built a Social Card Validator in a Weekend (and Here's What I Learned About Open Graph Tags)

#showdev #svelte #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Jan 6

🚀 Full-Stack AI Image Generation App | OpenAI DALL-E & Cloudinary

#ai #react #opensource #mern

1 min read

Yuvraj Angad Singh

Feb 6

Your GitHub Graph is Lying About How Much You Work. Here's How I Fixed Mine.

#opensource #github #cli #productivity

2 min read

Corbin

Jan 5

Building a Browser Only Sudoku Solver

#javascript #webdev #opensource #sudoku

2 min read

Jan 18

I’m done copy-pasting infrastructure code from old projects

#webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Nitay Rabinovich

Jan 6

Bringing RLM to TypeScript: Building rllm

#typescript #llm #rag #opensource

2 min read

Jan 5

Building a Private Photo Sharing Platform on AWS

#aws #opensource #photoprism

2 min read

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