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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 15

I Built a Lightweight i18n Library for JavaScript — Meet globaly-i18n

#javascript #opensource #npm #react

3 min read

Ibrahim Olawoyin

Mar 25

The First Week Panic: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Making My First Outreachy Contribution

#beginners #career #devjournal #opensource

6 min read

Mar 2

built a free DevOps error search engine — here's why

#devops #kubernetes #docker #opensource

2 min read

Mar 1

Never Repeat Yourself: Give Your LLM Apps Persistent Memory with ContextMD

#ai #llm #opensource #agents

4 min read

Apr 5

LinkedIn Scanned 6,222 Browser Extensions. Your AI Agent's Browser Is Next.

#security #ai #browsers #opensource

5 min read

Seif

Mar 1

Commercial Organ Plugins Cost $400. Mine Cost a Weekend and Some Math.

#blog #python #opensource #sounddesign

5 min read

Apr 4

I Found a Better Way to Build APIs (And It Actually Makes Sense)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #api

2 min read

CloudBased Backup

Mar 2

When Managed Nextcloud Makes More Sense Than Self-Hosting

#nextcloud #opensource #privacy

3 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 2

Using NadirClaw with Cursor

#cursor #ai #llm #opensource

3 min read

Dax

Mar 2

I built OpenPaw — turns Claude Code into a personal assistant with 38 skills

#ai #opensource #productivity #claude

2 min read

Süleyman İbiş

Mar 2

I built an open-source Python Mini SDK for Google Gemini from scratch. Here's everything I learned

#python #ai #gemini #opensource

5 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 1

NadirClaw vs LiteLLM vs ClawRouter: Which LLM Router Should You Use?

#ai #llm #opensource #comparison

5 min read

Axel

Apr 4

Meta’s In-App Browser: Convenience or a "Man-in-the-Middle" by Design?

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

2 min read

HorseyofCoursey

Apr 4

How the Axios Supply Chain Attack Worked - And How to Detect It Earlier

#security #npm #node #opensource

3 min read

Apr 4

I Built a Local Cost Monitor for Claude Code Using Just Bash and SQLite

#claudecode #devtools #opensource #bash

3 min read

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