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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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Apr 20

I got tired of copy-pasting the same table code, so I built a library

#angular #typescript #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Max Fedius

Mar 19

81,000 people said they don't feel in control of their AI tools. I built a linter for that.

#claudecode #devtools #cli #opensource

5 min read

Niko Sagiadinos

Apr 22

SaaS or Self-Hosting? What I Would Actually Use?

#selfhosting #opensource #saas #vendorlockin

5 min read

Brad

Mar 19

I Built the First Free Construction Cost API - Here's Why One Didn't Exist Until Now

#api #construction #opensource #webdev

7 min read

Teycir Ben Soltane

Mar 20

ApiHunter - Async API Security Scanner in Rust

#rust #security #api #opensource

1 min read

Sayan Paul

Mar 19

Stop Rewriting This React Form UX Logic

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Art

Mar 24

🚀 CrowdBooks is LIVE — and it's getting better every day!

#opensource #books #godot #android

2 min read

Mar 24

I Built a Redis Server in Rust — and Found Where It Breaks

#systems #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Cemil Tan

Mar 20

Building a Real-Time Chat App with React Native, Firebase & Expo 🚀

#reactnative #opensource #mobile #javascript

1 min read

Mar 19

Moveet: Building a City-Agnostic Fleet Simulator with Real Road Networks and Live Traffic

#showdev #typescript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

huangyongshan46-a11y

Mar 24

Making Your Codebase AI-Agent Friendly: AGENTS.md and llms.txt Explained

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

UAML

Mar 19

Context Quality is the New Model Quality: An Open Memory Provider Standard with Zero-Downtime Compaction for LLM Agents

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

17 min read

Apr 2

The changelog format that actually works (and why most devs get it wrong)

#opensource #git #productivity #documentation

3 min read

Olivier Buitelaar

Mar 19

I Built a Complete GitHub Actions Security Toolkit in One Day

#githubactions #security #devops #opensource

2 min read

Muhammad Zubair Bin Akbar

Apr 22

Top 10 Slurm Mistakes That Kill Cluster Performance

#performance #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

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