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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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Made Büro

Mar 21

Type-safe environment validation

#opensource #node #typescript #cli

3 min read

Pritom Mazumdar

Mar 24

Carbon Layer v0.6 : Webhook resilience testing for payment handlers (idempotency, out-of-order, signature verification)

#opensource #webdev #python #ai

2 min read

Mar 24

OCP: Use your Claude Pro/Max subscription to power Cline, OpenCode, Aider, and any OpenAI-compatible IDE

#ai #opensource #programming #productivity

2 min read

Ian Parent

Mar 24

The Eval Loop: Why Evals Are the Loss Function for Agent Quality

#mcp #aiagents #observability #opensource

6 min read

Feb 18

I Built a CLI Tool to Score Codebase Health -- Here's What I Learned

#devops #opensource #codequality #python

6 min read

VIKAS

Mar 3

Holi Overlay — Add Vibrant Holi Celebration Effects to Any Website

#webdev #npm #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Vyacheslav Mayorskiy

Mar 3

Databricks Integration Deep Dive: Teaching Aye Chat to Talk to Your Endpoint

#ai #programming #opensource #databricks

6 min read

Anton

Mar 3

Separating API and Application Services in Ruby with Servactory

#ruby #rails #opensource #architecture

6 min read

CoderLuii

Mar 22

How I Run Claude Code in Docker with a Web UI and Headless Browser

#docker #selfhosted #opensource #claudeai

3 min read

Mar 13

Free E-Commerce Admin Dashboard Template (30+ Pages) – KA Nexus Admin

#webdev #tailwindcss #opensource #frontend

2 min read

Mar 13

Real-Time Video Anonymization at 30 FPS on a $35 Computer

#privacy #python #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Mar 21

I built an open-source AI assistant that actually runs my day — here's the architecture

#opensource #ai #python #selfhosted

3 min read

TechLatest

Feb 18

From Chat App to AI Powerhouse: Telegram + OpenClaw

#openclaw #opensource #ai #llm

8 min read

Mar 24

Modular Prompts: Managing Complex Claude Code Skills with @include and @delegate

#claudecode #promptengineering #python #opensource

4 min read

Alex Dev

Feb 17

Why I Built My Own AWS Deployment Tool

#aws #typescript #serverless #opensource

7 min read

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