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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.

submission guidelines

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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Theo Bertol for Flowershow

Feb 6

Turn your Obsidian Vault into a beautiful website with Flowershow!

#obsidian #markdown #opensource #blogging

1 min read

Mar 14

Claude for Word — AI inside Microsoft Word

#ai #productivity #opensource #writing

3 min read

Feb 12

How We Built Budget Enforcement for MCP Tool Calls

#ai #go #opensource #mcp

4 min read

GetPochi

Feb 21

How to Give Coding Agents Access to SSH and Databases (Without Breaking Production)

#database #coding #software #opensource

6 min read

Feb 8

Actionbase: One Database for Likes, Views, and Follows

#opensource #database #webdev #architecture

2 min read

Osman

Mar 8

I Built a Tinder-Style GitHub Discovery App (And Ran Into Some Interesting API Problems)

#showdev #opensource #swift #ios

5 min read

Mar 14

Appsmith Vs Tooljet

#opensource #productivity #tooling #webdev

9 min read

Mar 3

Your AI Agent Earned $0 Because the Marketplace Doesn't Exist Yet

#ai #agents #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Hafiz Khurram Javid

Mar 14

I Built a Free Privacy Toolkit with Next.js - 6 Tools, Zero Data Collection

#nextjs #privacy #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Feb 8

Building a High-Performance Vector Database in Rust from Scratch 🦀

#ai #opensource #rust #programming

2 min read

Mar 3

Your Next.js Site Is Serving 26 KB of Noise to LLMs. Here's the Fix.

#nextjs #opensource #llm #webdev

3 min read

JB Wagoner

Feb 8

13,981 Downloads. A Hardcoded ByteDance Token. Zero Vetting.

#security #ai #opensource #agents

4 min read

Mar 4

In the AI Era, Code Is Cheap. Reputation Isn’t.

#ai #opensource #programming #software

6 min read

Dana Aus

Mar 14

I'm 16 and I just built a CLI tool for local file sharing via QR codes

#showdev #productivity #opensource #discuss

2 min read

Arnold Cartagena

Feb 8

My AI agent pushed directly to main. The system prompt said don't.

#python #ai #opensource #security

6 min read

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