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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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Naman vyas

Apr 22

Built Gova, a declarative GUI framework for Go

#showdev #go #programming #opensource

3 min read

Sid Padmanabhuni

Mar 22

I Built an Open-Source Security Gateway for MCP Because the Ecosystem Desperately Needs One

#mcp #security #react #opensource

2 min read

Tijmen de Jong 💻🚀

Mar 21

THE PIXEL OFFICE .AI (GRIND)

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

vnatco

Mar 21

Feedback needed for my 12yo project that I completely re-wrote this year.

#webdev #javascript #devops #opensource

2 min read

x1m4x

Mar 21

I Built an E2EE Proxy So LLM Providers Can't Read My Prompts

#opensource #ai #security #privacy

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 22

Kiwi-chan Devlog #007: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Mar 25

Video.js Was Abandoned After 16 Years. Its Creator Came Back and Merged 5 Competing Players Into One.

#discuss #javascript #opensource #programming

3 min read

Olivier Buitelaar

Mar 21

`pull_request_target` Without Regret: Secure Fork PRs in GitHub Actions

#githubactions #security #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mar 21

I replaced Morgan with reqlog and never looked back

#node #opensource #webdev #go

4 min read

Ming Tian

Mar 21

What I Learned Setting Up OpenClaw (and the Onboarding Path I Wish I Had)

#ai #opensource #beginners #productivity

2 min read

Muhammad Hamid Raza

Mar 21

I Built a Framework That Makes AI Ask Questions Before Writing Any Code

#ai #opensource #python #productivity

3 min read

Andy | AI产品专家

Mar 21

DNA Memory: Making AI Agents Learn, Forget, and Evolve Like a Human Brain

#ai #opensource #python #productivity

3 min read

Wu Long

Mar 21

When MIME Sniffing Breaks Your AI Agents Eyes

#ai #debugging #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mikhail Golikov

Apr 24

Postman and pytest Are Living in Parallel Universes. Here's a Bridge.

#python #pytest #testing #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 21

NocoBase 2.0 Beginner Tutorial - Chapter 2: Data Modeling

#ai #nocode #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

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