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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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Feb 25

How UIQuarter analyzes UI codebases and what it finds

#showdev #opensource #devtools #ai

5 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇰🇪 Kenya devs: Add Huduma Namba / National ID to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Feb 25

I Didn’t Want to Give Full GitHub Access — So I Built My Own LeetCode-to-GitHub Sync Chrome Extension

#github #javascript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

oriel

Mar 30

I got frustrated with writing tools so I built my own: Storyteller

#opensource #writing #react #productivity

3 min read

Feb 25

GLM-5 Raises the Ceiling for Open-Source AI: The One-Person Company is Closer Than Ever

#ai #glm #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Feb 25

The Digital Product Passport Is Moving From Concept to Execution

#dotnet #opensource #architecture #digitalproductpass

3 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 25

🇵🇰 Pakistan devs: Add CNIC (Computerized National ID Card) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

mcw999

Feb 25

Building Location-Based AR Content Discovery with PostGIS and Three.js

#webdev #opensource #javascript #tutorial

6 min read

Mar 31

I Built a Security Scanner That Uses AI to Review Its Own Findings

#security #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 25

OpenTelemetry vs Elastic APM - Which Monitoring Tool to Choose?

#monitoring #opensource #performance #tooling

10 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 25

OpenTelemetry vs Dynatrace - Which Tool Is Right for You?

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tooling

17 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 25

OpenTelemetry vs APM - Which Monitoring Approach Wins?

#devops #monitoring #opensource #performance

10 min read

Serhii Kravchenko

Mar 31

Why I Make Claude and Gemini Argue: Building an Adversarial Agentic Workflow (Open-Source Skill)

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

9 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 25

OpenTelemetry vs Honeycomb - Which Observability Tool Wins?

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tooling

11 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 25

OpenTelemetry vs. Application Insights - Key Differences

#azure #devops #monitoring #opensource

10 min read

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