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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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Jan 14

Beyond the `go` Keyword: The Secret Life of Goroutines & The Go Runtime

#go #opensource #webdev #systems

8 min read

Feb 18

The Complete Guide to SOUL.md: Give Your AI Agent a Personality

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

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ykagano

Feb 17

When One API Means Different Mocks for Each Team - Designing a Distributed WireMock Setup

#showdev #opensource #testing #docker

6 min read

Aurora

Feb 17

I Gave an AI Root Access, a Budget, and Said "Do As You Please" — Here's What Happened

#ai #opensource #python #machinelearning

4 min read

MaxxMini

Feb 18

5 Free Browser Tools I Built to Speed Up My Dev Workflow

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Aurora

Feb 17

7 Ways Your AI Agent Will Break in Production (And How to Fix Them)

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Rahul Prajapati

Jan 14

I Built a High-Performance Trading Chart Engine in Flutter (and Open-Sourced It)

#flutter #opensource #performance #dart

2 min read

Jan 14

🐉 Leviathan UI v1.0.0 — Interfaces gráficas modernas en Python

#python #pypi #opensource #gui

4 min read

Feb 17

AI Agents Still Can’t Use Your Stack. I Built a Fix.

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Brent G Saucedo

Jan 14

Is Meta Becoming the 4th Cloud Giant? (The Answer is Complicated)

#cloud #ai #meta #opensource

3 min read

Feb 17

NoamVC v0.3 — We deleted 3,500 lines and the app got better

#webrtc #rust #tauri #opensource

4 min read

Marco

Jan 14

I've open-sourced my document management system (built with Go, htmx and SQLite)

#opensource #go #webdev #saas

3 min read

Seryl Lns

Feb 17

Building a Rails Engine #3 — Configuration DSL: Making the Gem Flexible

#ruby #rails #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Feb 6

Como programar uma linguagem de programação? - Pituguês

#community #opensource #programming #python

11 min read

Touseef Ibn Khaleel

Jan 14

Gaze Guard: Your Privacy-First AI Shield Against Unwanted Online Content

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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