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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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kargathara Aakash

Feb 2

The Seniority Lie: Why your 10 years of experience might be a career death trap

#ai #webdev #future #opensource

2 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 26

Sending and Filtering Python Logs with OpenTelemetry

#devops #monitoring #opensource #python

11 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇺🇿 O'zbekiston devs: Add JSHSHIR (Personal ID Number) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇷🇸 Srbija devs: Add JMBG (Jedinstveni Matični Broj Građana) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Aitor Santana Cabrera

Feb 3

Why I built my own CLI to clean Docker & Node garbage (instead of using CleanMyMac)

#programming #bash #opensource #cli

2 min read

Nytrox

Mar 8

Veltix v1.5.0 — Routing & Auto-Reconnect

#opensource #python #tcp #networking

1 min read

Mar 8

Shipping a GUI Without the .NET Runtime: 2 Months with MewUI, a Cross-Platform UI Framework

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #vibecoding

12 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 6

I Built a Flight Recorder for AI Agents — Now I Can Replay Every Decision They Made

#rust #ai #opensource #programming

3 min read

Patrick J

Mar 8

We're giving open source projects free Pro-tier age compliance (50k checks/month) — looking for early adopters

#discuss #opensource #webdev #mobile

2 min read

Mar 8

I Published an MCP Server for Swiss Public Data. 68 Tools, 20 Modules, 867 Tests.

#mcp #typescript #opensource #ai

9 min read

perber

Mar 8

LeafWiki Devlog #9: v0.8.2 – Tree Improvements & Reverse Proxy Support

#opensource #go #markdown #documentation

2 min read

Tom Yahav

Mar 7

I Built a Memory Layer for Claude Code — It Saves Me Hours Every Week

#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Ronaldo Modesto

Mar 7

Protocols Visualizer: An Interactive Way to Learn Network Protocols

#cybersecurity #osi #network #opensource

1 min read

Oranda IO

Feb 25

I wanted a simpler way to run commands in a container from code, so l built a small HTTPS alternative to SSH

#webdev #go #docker #opensource

1 min read

Mar 8

Building a Faster secp256k1 Library – UltrafastSecp256k1 v3.21

#blockchain #opensource #performance #security

1 min read

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