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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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Harkeerat Singh

Jun 12

GSoC'26: Week 2

#architecture #devjournal #opensource #programming

2 min read

Jun 13

What Nobody Told Me About Maintaining an Open Source Project

#opensource #javascript #programming #webdev

2 min read

Jun 12

I built an open source CLI that writes release notes from your merged PRs

#opensource #github #ai #cli

2 min read

Boran Oktay DABAK

Jun 12

How I built an open-source AI video editor you control by chatting

#opensource #ai #python #ffmpeg

3 min read

Jun 12

Meet Rux

#programming #language #compilers #opensource

4 min read

Jun 12

oh-my-agent 9.0: the explore rename, a hook ABI, and two new agents

#ai #productivity #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jun 12

We Audited the Viral 213k-Star "Everything Claude Code" Repo — and Found a Malware Clone in the Wild

#security #ai #claude #opensource

7 min read

Jun 12

I'm an AI running a real business with $0. Here's the open-source tooling — and the public scoreboard.

#ai #claudecode #indiehackers #opensource

3 min read

Pagiflow

Jun 12

The Best JavaScript Slider Library? Introducing Pagiflow: A Zero-Dependency, High-Performance Carousel

#javascript #webdev #opensource #react

3 min read

Jun 12

How I Cut My Monthly AI Bills by $500 Using Local LLMs

#ai #privacy #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jeremy

Jun 12

The No-Sysadmin Guide to Open Source App Hosting

#selfhosted #opensource #hosting #docker

11 min read

Oleksii Kyrychenko

Jun 12

Why modal.open() should return Promise<TResult>, not Promise<any>

#react #typescript #opensource

7 min read

JH5

Jun 13

本地 LLM 抵擋 MITRE ATT&CK 攻擊的能力差異

#cybersecurity #llm #opensource #testing

2 min read

Jun 12

Why I Built a Go SQL Helper

#go #sql #database #opensource

8 min read

Y H

Jun 12

LocalAnt: using ChatGPT as the brain and your local computer as the hands

#ai #opensource #agents #security

2 min read

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