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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

LiDAR Depth Maps on the GPU in React Native — And a Dawn Upstream Contribution

#ios #opensource #performance #reactnative

9 min read

Mani G

Mar 21

How (A) I Built Open-Source LLM Guardrails with FastAPI

#python #ai #fastapi #opensource

1 min read

Andrea Tasselli

Mar 18

I Got Tired of Clicking "Accept" 100 Times a Day in Claude Code. So I Built a Menu Bar App

#ai #vscode #opensource #productivity

4 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 20

Kiwi-chan's Log: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Prachi Jha

Mar 21

I Baked a Flutter App Into a Car OS. Here's What Broke and What Didn't.

#linux #systems #opensource #dart

5 min read

Mar 17

How We Added Cryptographic Message Signing to OpenClaw's MCP Transport

#security #mcp #ai #opensource

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 20

Kiwi-chan's Log: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Apr 20

Stop Manually Updating Version Numbers in PowerShell Projects — PSScriptBuilder Does It For You

#powershell #devtools #automation #opensource

4 min read

Tim Zinin

Mar 21

How Zeroboot is Changing AI Agent Isolation Forever

#ai #agents #opensource

2 min read

Mar 17

Invidious Vs Piped

#frontend #opensource #privacy #webdev

4 min read

Mar 17

How I Solved WebSocket "Event Drift" in React with a Custom NPM Package

#react #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Liel Cohen

Mar 17

I got tired of babysitting Claude Code, so I built an open-source orchestrator that runs a full AI dev team from my phone

#ai #opensource #development #claudecode

3 min read

Apr 7

How I Processed 335,000 Tokens in One Night for 57 Cents

#ai #beginners #opensource #cloud

5 min read

J Z

Mar 17

Beyond Copy-Paste: Why AI Agents Need a Compiler and Governance Flow

#ai #agentops #opensource #devops

5 min read

Yaniv

Apr 17

Why I Built an AI-Powered Test Data Generator (and When You Shouldn't Use AI for Fixtures)

#testing #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

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