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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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Varun Manjunath

Jun 18

Tired of the YouTube Doomscroll? Meet NoSuggest – A Quiet Act of Resistance

#webdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

2 min read

ghostdev

Jun 16

I got tired of being told I'm using Claude Code wrong, so I built Loopy

#opensource #cli #codex #ai

2 min read

krit.k83 (ΚρητικόςIGB)

Jun 16

"I shipped an open-source CLI to an audience of zero — the most-downloaded build surprised me"

#opensource #cli #python #selfhosted

2 min read

Jun 21

The Code I Shared: Reflections on my best 29+ Merged Pull Requests in Open Source

#opensource #github #programming #webdev

5 min read

Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Jun 21

I'm 13. I built a software company. Here's everything I learned in 1 months.

#showdev #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Jun 17

How to build a coding agent — Part 1.1

#opensource #aicodingagent #multica #react

4 min read

Jun 16

Fixing a 4-Year-Old Terraform Timeout in the AWS Provider

#aws #terraform #opensource #awsconfig

4 min read

Jun 17

I cut an AI agent's input tokens by 71% and quality held — here's the 66-task benchmark

#showdev #opensource #ai #typescript

6 min read

Jun 16

I accidentally built a bot whose only job was to attack our own GitHub

#webdev #github #python #opensource

3 min read

Jun 16

Your AI agent is a stack of files. muster 1.0.0 tests all of them.

#ai #opensource #typescript #llm

4 min read

Jessin Ra

Jun 16

My AI agents spend 10 minutes every night rewriting their own memory.

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

3 min read

Sujan Lamichhane

Jun 16

I Published Nepal's First Java Payment Library to Maven Central — Here's What Broke

#java #springboot #nepal #opensource

4 min read

Alex Bogle

Jun 16

How I Contributed to Awesome Second Brain — And What I Learned From Getting Rejected

#opensource #ai #secondbrain #hermes

8 min read

ur-grue

Jun 16

Why I built 394 narrow Claude skills instead of one big media prompt

#ai #claude #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jun 16

Stop Reinventing Boilerplate: Modern Web Development Is About Orchestration

#programming #architecture #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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