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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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Dan McCoy

Nov 12

🌀 Simulating Time Loops in a Shed: A Spin-Biased FDTD Journey

#opensource #simulation #python #programming

2 min read

Polliog

Dec 14

Open Source Licenses Explained: The Good, The Bad, and The "Wait, Can I Actually Use This?"

#discuss #opensource #programming #beginners

8 min read

Dec 10

Introducing GoCVKit: Zero-Boilerplate Computer Vision in Go

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Robbin

Nov 12

Introducing NalthJS - A security framework for the web.

#webdev #opensource #typescript #security

1 min read

marcosomma

Dec 2

🧠Maybe I Just Do Not Get It!

#ai #rag #machinelearning #opensource

12 min read

Nov 13

Project standards in Umami codebase - Part 1.0

#umami #codebase #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Atfa Solangi for PullFlow

Nov 17

From Solo Maintainer to Foundation

#discuss #opensource #github #productivity

3 min read

NocoBase

Nov 13

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Dec 15

Why I Built Framework-Agnostic UI Components with Web Components

#webcomponents #typescript #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Nov 13

Spring Boot LogX — Free Request Tracing & Smart Logging Boilerplate for Clean, Debuggable APIs

#springboot #boilerplate #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Nov 13

I’m building an open-source Habit Tracker app!

#reactnative #opensource #mobile

1 min read

Stelixx Insider

Nov 13

Dart Frog: Framework Backend Tối giản, Hiệu quả cho Dự án Mã nguồn Mở

#backend #tooling #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Nov 13

Project standards in Umami codebase - Part 1.1

#umami #prettier #opensource #eslint

4 min read

kingyou

Dec 5

🖤 Introducing Grayscale Webpages: A Simpler, Calmer Way to Browse

#discuss #productivity #opensource #community

2 min read

BuxarNET

Nov 13

How I Built a Thunderbird Translator Without Coding Experience Using AI

#javascript #programming #ai #opensource

6 min read

Nov 15

MacOS on debian QEMU KVM

#opensource #linux #tooling #tutorial

2 min read

arrno

Nov 12

🏷️ Blazingly.fast — a framework for belief-driven benchmarking

#showdev #opensource #performance

2 min read

NocoBase

Dec 5

Top 5 Open-Source AI Internal Tools on GitHub

#ai #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

Sergey Nikolaev

Nov 12

Manticore Search 14.1.0: Force Bigrams and Bug Fixes

#database #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Phil Yeh

Nov 25

Stop decoding Hex manually. I built a Python J1939 Sniffer with a GUI (No Hardware Needed)

#python #automation #engineering #opensource

2 min read

Nov 25

Terminal Micro ENGINE | A tiny DOS-style game engine

#programming #software #gamedev #opensource

1 min read

Nov 12

Bug fix release 2.08 for the Perl Distribution Workflow

#release #opensource #perl

1 min read

Dec 14

I Crashed My Server with Promise.all() - Here's How I Built a 121 RPS Fuzzer Instead

#webdev #node #tooling #opensource

4 min read

Dec 5

Best Multi Agent Frameworks : Full Comparison of Open Source and Production Ready Tools

#agents #tooling #ai #opensource

3 min read

Dec 5

🔐 Exploring Wi‑Fi Security Safely: A Beginner‑Friendly Guide to the WiFi‑Lab Controller (with GUI!)

#cybersecurity #wifihack #phishing #opensource

4 min read

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