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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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Reza

Apr 30

Beyond MediatR: Why We Built ConduitR for the Next Generation of .NET

#dotnet #performance #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Lee Powell

May 5

Why I built rtfstruct, fifteen years after writing the RTF parser inside Scrivener

#python #ai #opensource #programming

9 min read

Raizan

May 1

How to Reduce Your SaaS Bill with Self-Hosted Alternatives

#selfhosted #saas #opensource #devops

5 min read

Suzu Idaki

May 3

How I run Claude Code 24/7 on a 2015 MacBook — the framework that survived 6 months

#claude #ai #automation #opensource

5 min read

Vinícius Macacari

Apr 30

DBOLT - Database Manager

#opensource #database #productivity #programming

4 min read

Kaf

May 5

Numix Dark Cursor Installer for Windows — Open Source Tool

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #win

2 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 30

Kiwi-chan's Log: Birch Blues & Forward Momentum 🥝

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

May 5

What I Learned Building a Pure Go PostgreSQL Parser

#go #postgres #database #opensource

1 min read

RoarLyte

Apr 30

Official Release of LyteNyte Grid Version 2.1

#ai #webdev #opensource #react

6 min read

Harald Roessler

Apr 30

Inside a2a-acl — a drop-in Express library for agent-to-agent authorization

#security #opensource #javascript #agents

6 min read

Johnny Nam

May 5

Open-sourcing tcs-macro-pulse: a tiny Python toolkit for FRED + GDACS data

#showdev #data #opensource #python

2 min read

Mahendra S

May 5

How I built a tool that checks if a GitHub issue already has a PR — and why that's the feature nobody built

#opensource #github #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Jacob

May 5

How I Built a 10KB Embeddable Chat Widget on Cloudflare Workers

#cloudflare #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Oresztesz Margaritisz

Apr 30

Advancing Your Own AWS AI Architect with DrawIO Skills and Living Documentation

#ai #architecture #aws #opensource

10 min read

kiwi_tech

May 1

Kiwi-chan's Slow & Steady Climb (and a LOT of Dirt) 🥝

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

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