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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 18

EqhoPass: Why I Built a Password Manager for Developers

#showdev #security #cli #opensource

4 min read

Mar 18

Open Source Maintainers Face Mental Health Crises: Sustainable Practices and Community Support Needed

#opensource #mentalhealth #maintainers #burnout

12 min read

Chris King

Mar 23

Why I Built a Distributed SQLite on S3 (And Why You Might Care)

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Talvinder Singh

Mar 18

The GitHub Slopocalypse and the Coming Trust Tax

#agenticsystems #softwareengineering #opensource

4 min read

Apr 21

HOCKS AI: I Open-Sourced a Full AI Platform With Chat, Vision, Video Analysis & Website Generation — Runs at $0/Month

#ai #opensource #webdev #firebase

4 min read

Apr 1

I built a Claude Code skill that strips AI slop from writing and adds soul back in

#claudecode #ai #writing #opensource

2 min read

Mar 19

Leantime Vs Asana

#management #opensource #productivity #tooling

4 min read

Mar 19

I Built a Free Web Portal for OpenClaw — Self-Hosted AI Workstation on Any VPS

#showdev #ai #opensource #vibecoding

3 min read

Apr 10

Notifee is Archived. Here’s a Maintained, New-Architecture Drop-in Replacement

#reactnative #refactoring #opensource #npm

5 min read

Godwill Christopher

Apr 21

I got tired of rewriting the same pandas preprocessing code — so I built a plugin

#datascience #python #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 19

Jensen Is Right — Every Company Needs an OpenClaw Strategy. Here's What He Didn't Say.

#ai #opensource #web3 #typescript

4 min read

Mar 18

Minerust

#opensource #gamedev #rust #programming

5 min read

Lumibear Studio

Mar 23

I built an Open Source Miller Columns File Explorer for Windows because I missed macOS Finder.

#showdev #opensource #productivity #sideprojects

2 min read

Abhiram

Mar 19

I Built a WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Checker and Shipped Its SDK to Three Package Registries as a CS Student published: true

#a11y #rust #dotnet #opensource

4 min read

Dave Sng

Mar 23

Real-Time Energy Supply Risk Monitoring — How I Combined 4 Government Data Sources Into One API

#api #python #data #opensource

4 min read

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