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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 5

I Built a 1-Line Observability Package for Express & Fastify Zero Dependencies, Full TypeScript

#javascript #node #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Siddhartha Mishra

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Introducing SnapbitTools

#webdev #devtools #opensource #privacy

5 min read

Seryl Lns

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Building a Rails Engine #8 — Real-time Progress with ActionCable & Stimulus

#webdev #rails #ruby #opensource

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Brobits

Jan 31

Brobitz - MuicPlayer

#webdev #programming #opensource #electron

1 min read

Mar 5

Your Claude Code Bill is Growing, here's How to Control It

#ai #llm #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Wes

Mar 5

I Let an AI Agent Use My Browser Tool Unsupervised. It Found 3 Bugs in 20 Minutes.

#mcp #ai #webdev #opensource

5 min read

techtech

Mar 5

Bento.me is Gone, so I Built My Own (For Free)

#webdev #opensource #linktree #bio

2 min read

Mirko Dimartino

Mar 5

Stop Writing Raw Regex in Java

#java #programming #opensource #regex

2 min read

Mar 5

After Building So Many WordPress Plugins, I Made WPPF

#wordpress #php #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Stefhany Santos

Feb 22

Como consertei a câmera de um port de PC usando a API do Windows (Unity IL2CPP Modding)

#csharp #unity3d #gamedev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 30

bullstudio: a Prisma Studio–style dashboard for BullMQ (run it with npx)

#showdev #node #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Made Büro

Mar 5

GEO for Shopify: How to Get Your Products Into ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity Results

#shopify #opensource #ai #chatgpt

3 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 5

The Art of Forgetting: Why Perfect Memory Might Be Creativity's Enemy

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Yurukusa

Mar 5

I Built a Tool That Roasts Your CLAUDE.md. Mine Got Called an 'S-Tier Micromanager'.

#claudecode #ai #humor #opensource

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Mar 5

How to Control AI Agent API Costs: Rate Limiting vs Economic Firewalls

#ai #api #security #opensource

3 min read

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