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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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spearzy

May 5

I wrote a .NET assertion library to understand how they work

#dotnet #testing #csharp #opensource

4 min read

jwl247

Apr 2

PHOENIX PACKAGE HANDLER

#agnostic #productivity #devops #opensource

1 min read

Siddharth Singh

Apr 1

PagerDuty Alternative for Root Cause Analysis: Why SRE Teams Are Adding AI Investigation

#devops #sre #opensource #kubernetes

6 min read

jidonglab

Apr 2

Stop Wasting Tokens on npm Install Noise

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 1

Callback trace contracts for the TD2 compare lane

#gamedev #cprogramming #retrocomputing #opensource

1 min read

May 5

Vek-sync: One Config File to Rule Them All

#mcp #claude #workflows #opensource

11 min read

Francesco Sardone

May 3

Turning Repository Knowledge Into Usable Agent Context

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Praveen Govindaraj

Apr 1

Build a Multi-Agent Data Pipeline in 50 Lines of Neam

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

RedVase

May 6

Leveling Up Your Termux Experience: A Lightweight GUI/TUI Alternative Package Manager

#termux #android #opensource

1 min read

WonderLab

Apr 1

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 26): ZeroClaw - Full-Rust Autonomous AI Assistant Infrastructure, and Its Relationship to OpenClaw

#openclaw #opensource #ai #rust

9 min read

Yes No

Mar 31

Hello world

#tui #opensource #productivity #markdown

1 min read

Apr 1

OpenClaw AI Agent Framework: Run Autonomous AI on Your Own Hardware

#ai #opensource #automation #devops

2 min read

Hamid

Apr 2

I Built a Distributed Systems Simulator So You Don't Need Cloud to Learn Infrastructure

#distributedsystems #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Apr 1

K501 — Canonical Specifications (Core Modules)

#opensource #ai #datascience #programming

3 min read

Alexander van Elsas

Apr 5

BareDOM: 67 Zero-Dependency Web Components (Built with CLJS)

#showdev #webcomponents #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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