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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 4

Building CommonTrace: A Neuroscience-Inspired Knowledge Base for AI Coding Agents

#ai #opensource #architecture #python

3 min read

Boucle

Mar 7

read-once: A Claude Code Hook That Stops Redundant File Reads

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Frank Chan

Mar 6

I built a markdown pager for the terminal because I live in the CLI and nothing else worked

#opensource #ai #productivity #cli

3 min read

Mar 7

👋 Looking for collaborators — PhysicClaw-VEA

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Amr

Jan 31

I built a "Bot Factory" in Go that routes thousands of Telegram bots through a single port

#go #opensource #telegram

1 min read

Feb 1

How to Count a Billion Unique Items with Almost No Memory

#python #datascience #algorithms #opensource

5 min read

Feb 5

At Some Point, Your Code Stops Being Enough

#digitalfootprint #careerdevelopment #books #opensource

3 min read

Mar 6

I Built ProofMap Because Recruiters Don’t Trust Resumes Anymore

#showdev #career #opensource #sideprojects

4 min read

WonderLab

Mar 7

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 8): NexaSDK - Cross-Platform On-Device AI Runtime for Running Frontier Models Locally

#opensource #llm #npu #python

8 min read

Mar 6

My Non-Fiction Library: Books on Data Lakehouses, Apache Iceberg, AI, and Beyond

#ai #architecture #dataengineering #opensource

9 min read

freerave

Mar 4

Balancing Deep Work and Spiritual Goals: Introducing CodeTune v1.1.0

#vscode #productivity #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Ben Sabic for 224 Industries

Feb 24

Five Webflow Agent Skills So AI Coding Agents Can Actually Work With Webflow

#webflow #opensource #ai #webdev

6 min read

Mar 6

I Shaved 600 MB Off a Production Docker Image Here's What I Learned

#docker #python #django #opensource

4 min read

yanggmtl

Mar 6

Stop Hardcoding React Forms: Build Dynamic Schema-Driven Forms with Formitiva

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 31

Why Google Refuses to Index Your Next.js Site

#webdev #nextjs #seo #opensource

3 min read

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