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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 9

I made a currency converter that runs in a single HTML file

#javascript #webdev #opensource #html

2 min read

Apr 30

I built my own self-hosted comment system as an alternative to Disqus (and you can too)

#webdev #opensource #node

3 min read

Ziva

Apr 9

NVIDIA Is Investing in an Open Source Game Engine. Here's Why That Matters.

#opensource #gamedev #ai #programming

3 min read

Apr 9

I Built a Free Browser-Based Chart Builder and Report Creator — Here's How It Works

#webdev #javascript #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Z

Apr 13

I built a fully offline voice-controlled AI agent using Whisper and qwen2.5

#ai #productivity #python #opensource

4 min read

Andrea Debernardi

May 13

The database has to be a defensive boundary again

#programming #opensource #database #mcp

3 min read

Pheem49

May 13

I built an AI Agent that lives directly in your CLI and Desktop

#ai #cli #node #opensource

3 min read

Apr 9

I built a merge gate that quizzes developers on their own code changes — here's why and how

#github #opensource #ai #devops

3 min read

WonderLab

Apr 9

One Open Source Project a Day (No.34): second-brain-skills - A Skill Toolkit That Turns Claude Code Into a Knowledge Work Expert

#ai #opensource #claude #skills

8 min read

zaxion

Apr 9

The 47-File PR "Improvement" That Broke Me

#opensource #github #webdev #codenewbie

2 min read

hugo.felix

Apr 9

Stop Copy-Pasting Context to AI — Click a Component, AI Knows Where to Fix It

#ai #webdev #opensource #programming

4 min read

Ziva

Apr 9

NVIDIA investiert in eine Open-Source-Game-Engine: Was die Daten zeigen

#german #deutsch #opensource #gamedev

3 min read

Apr 9

EcoArcade is DONE!

#ecoarcade #browserextension #climateaction #opensource

2 min read

Apr 7

dotenv-audit v1.1.0 — now with .env.example auto-sync

#node #javascript #opensource #development

2 min read

Pavel Kostromin

Apr 9

Malicious Code Hidden in Build Config Files Exploits Trust in PRs: Enhanced Scrutiny and Automated Checks Proposed

#security #malware #opensource #obfuscation

11 min read

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