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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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kiwi_tech

Apr 17

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Apr 17

Themis: criptografía seria sin morir en el intento

#spanish #espanol #experimentos #opensource

6 min read

Apr 17

Themis: Serious Cryptography Without Losing Your Mind

#english #experiments #opensource #cryptography

5 min read

Mar 14

I built a free JSON formatter that works 100% offline — because I was tired of pasting secrets into random websites

#javascript #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Apr 17

A Dancer with ALS Controlled a Performance with Her Brainwaves — and I Couldn't Stop Thinking About It

#english #reflections #accesibilidad #opensource

8 min read

Apr 17

Stop Manually Sorting PowerShell Class Files — PSScriptBuilder Does It For You

#powershell #devtools #automation #opensource

3 min read

Damien PHILIPPE

Mar 15

Reading CPU power registers on Windows almost broke me. Here's what I learned building a power monitor in Rust.

#showdev #opensource #rust #energy

3 min read

Mar 14

Show HN: N8n-trace – Grafana-like observability for n8n workflows

#showdev #automation #monitoring #opensource

1 min read

TreeSoop

Apr 17

ai-news-mcp: 17 AI trend sources auto-scraped, served via MCP

#news #ai #mcp #opensource

2 min read

Honest 60% success rate for receipt extraction

Fernando

Apr 8

Clawshier OpenClaw Skill

#ai #openclaw #opensource #openai

3 min read

olko

Apr 17

Add slow-query detection and request budgets to Node without swapping your DB client

#node #opensource #postgres #javascript

1 min read

member_e34997ea

Mar 14

Getting Started with Ryvos in 5 Minutes

#rust #ai #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Apr 17

I Built an MCP Server That Keeps Your i18n Translations in Sync (With AI)

#opensource #typescript #node #mcp

2 min read

Kevin

Mar 15

Your AI Agents Are Only as Good as the Plumbing. This Week Changed the Pipes.

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

7 min read

Mar 14

Open-Source tornado and severe storm tracker (I'm 100% open to feedback)

#discuss #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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