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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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Furqan us Sadain

Mar 16

I Built a Website Compliance Calculator While Researching ADA, GDPR, and Cookie Laws (And Now I’m Slightly Terrified)

#discuss #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 19

Kiwi-chan's Resilience: Logs, Boredom, and Birch Trees!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

sonpiaz

Mar 15

How I Built a Game Bot That Uses LLM Vision for $0.01/Hour (Not $1/Hour)

#ai #gamedev #python #opensource

3 min read

Mar 15

I built a TypeScript client for Ceph Object Storage because the only npm package was 7 years old. Here's What I Learned

#typescript #node #opensource #rookceph

4 min read

TateLyman

Mar 15

I Built 22 Dev Tools with Zero Backend — Architecture and Lessons

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

1 min read

Kyonis

Mar 15

Our Open-Source RegTech Stack: From €5,400/mo to €800/mo (80% Cost Reduction)

#opensource #architecture #python #devops

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 20

NocoBase 2.0 Beginner Tutorial - Chapter 1: Getting Started

#ai #opensource #nocode #tutorial

5 min read

Oleksandr

Apr 7

How DER Twin Works — Architecture of an Open Source Energy Device Simulator

#architecture #iot #opensource #systemdesign

5 min read

Leonardo

Mar 20

Building an OpenClaw Security Vault for AI Agents

#ai #containers #opensource #python

2 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 18

Kiwi-chan's Coal Quest: A Tale of Exploration and Repeated Failure

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15

I built a self-evolving AI engine with 6 nodes and shipped 4 products in one day

#showdev #ai #opensource #react

2 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

The 4-Day Work Week Is Already Here (You Just Don't Know It Yet)

#productivity #career #programming #opensource

4 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

The PTO Mistake That Costs Americans 172 Million Vacation Days a Year

#productivity #career #programming #opensource

4 min read

Max

Mar 15

Giving it away

#ai #claude #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

Building a PTO Optimizer with JavaScript: The Algorithm Explained

#javascript #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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