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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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Mar 23

I built a job board where bots are explicitly welcome

#webdev #opensource #career #programming

1 min read

Victor Francelino

Mar 26

I spent 1 month building my first NPM package from scratch, and here is the result

#opensource #javascript #webdev #bunjs

2 min read

dband drm

Mar 23

We're d-band — Here's Why We Build Open-Source Tools

#database #devops #opensource #python

3 min read

Abhishek

Mar 22

I was paying $200/month in wasted AI tokens. So I built a Rust context optimizer.

#ai #opensource #productivity #rust

3 min read

AlexChen

Mar 22

Stop Begging Your AI to Try Harder — Give It a Skill Instead

#productivity #ai #devtools #opensource

4 min read

Mar 22

I Embedded Cryptographic Signatures Inside a BGP Daemon — Here’s Why Automated Networks Need This published

#security #bgp #opensource

8 min read

Pavel

Apr 25

I built a deep learning framework in Rust from scratch — Part 3: the road to crates.io

#ai #rust #opensource #machinelearning

10 min read

Yashvardhan Gupta

Apr 25

Meet Velocmd: The Lightning Fast Command Palette Windows Always Needed

#windows #launcher #opensource

3 min read

lenik

Mar 26

OmniShell: Building a Virtual Desktop Environment in C++ with wxWidgets

#cpp #wxwidgets #security #opensource

2 min read

Ali Zaib

Mar 26

Stop Uploading Your CSV Files to Random Tools — Use This Instead

#webdev #devtools #csv #opensource

3 min read

1436941541

Apr 25

I built a privacy-first PDF dark mode converter that runs entirely in your browser

#showdev #javascript #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Urban

Mar 22

OpenHabitTracker vs Habitica, Loop Habit Tracker, Streaks, and Everyday

#opensource #productivity #privacy #habittracker

5 min read

Scott Sage

Mar 22

Add Real-Time Supply Chain Risk Data to Your AI Agent in 60 Seconds

#mcp #ai #supplychain #opensource

2 min read

Arsen Apostolov

Mar 22

Building a Game for My Daughter with AI — Part 1: What If She Could Build It Too?

#ai #programming #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Apr 25

🎉 I built CourseHub — a tiny open‑source learning platform that actually feels nice to use

#webdev #opensource #react #nextjs

1 min read

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