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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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capman

Mar 30

I built a tool that lets AI agents interact with your app without navigating the UI

#ai #typescript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Michael Gantman

Apr 22

Zero-Code-Change Stacktrace Filtering for Spring Boot: An Infrastructure-Level Integration

#java #springboot #architecture #opensource

16 min read

Mar 29

Every backend developer has this headache 😩

#node #systemdesign #opensource #npm

2 min read

Dheeraj

Mar 30

Empty (Blank Board): A Minimal Canvas Where Everything Is a Plugin

#javascript #opensource #webdev #buildinpublic

2 min read

iecharri

Mar 31

EVAI – Lightweight PHP LMS used in a real university for 20 years, now open source

#php #opensource #education #webdev

1 min read

Ray

Mar 31

Stop Paying for Monitoring: The Self-Hosted Stack for Indie SaaS Founders

#python #opensource #devops #startup

3 min read

Mar 31

Improving Dawarich's Functionality and User Experience Through Open-Source Collaboration and Community Engagement

#opensource #privacy #community #geotagging

14 min read

Apr 3

I reverse-engineered X's open-source algorithm into a Chrome extension that predicts your reach before you post

#ai #twitter #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Oscar Ricardo Sánche Gutierréz

Mar 31

RustDesk: How to Create a Secure Private Remote Access Network

#rustdesk #remotedesktop #selfhosted #opensource

5 min read

Andrew Kim | Dreamlit.ai

Mar 31

Lovable Cloud to Your Own Supabase, Without the Password Resets

#supabase #lovable #webdev #opensource

6 min read

jidonglab

Mar 31

agency-agents: 120 AI Specialist Personas That Prove Prompts Need Personality, Not Just Instructions

#ai #promptengineering #agents #opensource

2 min read

Vyas Barath Krishnan

Mar 30

I spent 8 weeks building a Nash Equilibrium calculator from scratch in Python

#opensource #github #computerscience #algorithms

1 min read

opaopa6969

Mar 31

AI Characters Arguing About Your Code. Yes, Really

#ai #devtools #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Dor Ringel

Mar 30

epsiclaw: The Karpathy treatment for OpenClaw - 515 lines of Python

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Mar 30

Building a Gantt Chart Component with Zero Dependencies

#javascript #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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