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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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Looped

May 24

I Built Cuekiyo: a Local-First Anime OP/ED Video Pipeline with React, FastAPI, yt-dlp and FFmpeg

#opensource #react #fastapi #ffmpeg

8 min read

May 24

Why I Built a Privacy-First Dev Toolkit

#webdev #opensource #tooling #devops

2 min read

May 24

Your marketplace users are uploading their home address in every photo. You're storing all of it.

#webdev #api #privacy #opensource

3 min read

YUVRAJ

May 24

7 things you can do with Rogue Studio that no other AI IDE will let you do

#opensource #ai #webdev #programming

5 min read

May 24

I forked Chromium and built an open-source browser with a built-in AI agent

#ai #opensource #browser #programming

3 min read

May 24

Why File Editing Is the Hardest Part of Building a Coding Agent

#ai #programming #opensource #python

5 min read

May 24

Rodei Flux Schnell + LLM numa GPU de R$300. Sem CUDA. Sem cloud. Sem ROCm.

#ai #tutorial #opensource #programacao

2 min read

May 24

Everything that failed before Vulkan saved our RX 580 AI setup

#ai #amd #playwright #opensource

3 min read

May 24

Three researchers. One GPU. Two years. How the RX 580 became an AI platform.

#ai #amd #hystory #opensource

3 min read

May 24

I ran Flux Schnell + LLMs on a $50 GPU. No CUDA. No cloud. No ROCm.

#ai #tutorial #llm #opensource

2 min read

May 25

OSS Monthly Recap: What My Daily Commit Challenge Taught Me About Open Source “Culture”

#opensource #beginners #github #devjournal

2 min read

qing chen

May 24

OpenClaw on DigitalOcean: A No-BS, Security-First Setup Guide

#ai #devops #security #opensource

7 min read

Debjit Dey

May 24

Tracking Chaos: Building a Real-Time Flight Anomaly Engine with Django, Celery, and Machine Learning

#django #react #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Özgür Kurucan

May 24

How I Boosted My Productivity by 10x Using Claude Code (Opening the Black Box)

#opensource #ai #vscode #devtools

3 min read

May 24

I Built My First VS Code Extension — A Sound Alert for Failed Terminal Commands

#vscode #typescript #opensource #devtools

2 min read

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