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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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Stepan Romankov

Feb 27

Why Does Your Testing Framework Need 17 Functions?

#go #testing #opensource

3 min read

Alberto Daniel Badia

Mar 3

Semantic Invalidation That Doesn't Suck

#python #opensource #rust #webdev

3 min read

Benito Mallamaci

Feb 26

I Made Tkinter Look Like a Modern Glassmorphic App — Here's the Dark Magic I Used

#python #opensource #ai #tutorial

3 min read

Nathan Kamokoue

Mar 3

How I built an architecture diagram tool that actually stays in sync with your code

#architecture #opensource #ai #vibecoding

5 min read

Nachiket Roy for OWASP BLT

Mar 3

My Journey Into Open Source and My First Big PR

#opensource #owasp #gsoc

3 min read

SangheeSon

Feb 28

I built a single binary to manage all my homelab servers from Telegram

#go #opensource #docker #mcp

2 min read

Yanko Alexandrov

Feb 27

I Built a 15W Always-On AI Assistant Box — Here's What I Learned

#ai #selfhosted #jetson #opensource

2 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Feb 27

From TB-Scale MongoDB to Doris: 5 Critical Challenges and Fixes with Apache SeaTunnel

#apacheseatunnel #mongodb #opensource #bigdata

9 min read

Feb 27

Shipped Eid Mubarak Effect 🌙

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Feb 27

Introducing Sentira CORE

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Baz

Mar 3

I built a 6-pass security scanner for OpenClaw skills after 824 malicious ones were found on ClawHub

#security #opensource #ai #cli

2 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 27

Apache DolphinScheduler Task Failure Retry Mechanism: Intelligent Like Parcel Redelivery

#dolphinscheduler #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Sui Gn

Feb 27

The Technicality Behind The Speed of .me

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Ntty

Feb 27

Stop Coding in Silence - 225 Iconic Sounds from Batman, Matrix, Warcraft & 25 More Games

#ai #devops #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Feb 27

BREAKING: Any Website Can Silently Hijack Your OpenClaw Agent (Oasis Security)

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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