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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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ur-grue

Jun 16

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

#ai #claude #opensource #productivity

2 min read

IshmamR

Jun 16

I Was Fed Up with Mongoose's Types, So I Built My Own ODM

#typescript #mongodb #node #opensource

8 min read

Jun 16

Stop Reinventing Boilerplate: Modern Web Development Is About Orchestration

#programming #architecture #webdev #opensource

4 min read

QuantaMind

Jun 17

Block the Merge if the Model Isn't Ready": Shifting Local AI Evaluations Left with CI Gates

#ai #llm #opensource #rust

1 min read

Kazu

Jun 16

How to safely remove a Rails column: finding every real reference before you delete

#rails #ruby #database #opensource

12 min read

Ansuman Jaiswal

Jun 16

I cleaned India's Census 2011 data so you never have to

#python #data #opendata #opensource

3 min read

Jun 16

Zero to Codebase Expert: 9 Agent Skills for Onboarding Any Repo with Cursor

#cursor #ai #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Jun 16

Stop Letting AI Be Lazy: 2 Cognitive Protocols to Force Wit and Logical Rigor

#promptengineering #ai #chatgpt #opensource

3 min read

hwlsniper

Jun 16

I Built a PDF Tool That Never Uploads Your Files — Here's Why

#showdev #opensource #webdev #privacy

2 min read

Mathsa

Jun 16

# How GitHub Star Exchange Platforms Work

#github #marketing #opensource

4 min read

Jun 19

I built a Claude Code skill that finds customers, not competitors, on Reddit & LinkedIn

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jun 16

How I Found Real Bugs in MoneyPrinterTurbo, CodeceptJS, and Magento — And Got Them Merged

#opensource #qa #testing #javascript

4 min read

Jun 16

LocalityLens: Why Your AI Coding Agent Gets Lost in Your Codebase

#ai #opensource #agents #software

4 min read

Jun 16

We Scanned Popular Open Source MCP Configs. Here's What We Found.

#security #mcp #scan #opensource

3 min read

Jun 16

Operational Registers in NGB Platform: Tracking Operational Business State

#dotnet #postgres #architecture #opensource

3 min read

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