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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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Andres2803

Mar 24

Check out my new tool for cli to automate your npm

#opensource #cli

1 min read

Mar 24

Bring your app onchain in minutes through Starkzap

#blockchain #opensource #typescript #web3

8 min read

Mar 24

Tired of Zoom and Meet? I Built a 2D Virtual Office Universe with WebRTC: Meet Locmind

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 25

NocoBase 2.0 Beginner Tutorial - Chapter 5: Users & Permissions

#ai #opensource #nocode #tutorial

8 min read

Mar 24

140+ Free Developer Tools – No Signup, No Tracking

#webdev #opensource #github #coding

1 min read

Batty

Mar 24

I Let AI Agents Manage Themselves with a Markdown File

#ai #productivity #devtools #opensource

8 min read

Tom Jordi Ruesch

Mar 24

Stop Sending Your .env to OpenAI: A Privacy Layer for OpenCode

#opensource #vibecoding #programming

4 min read

Alan

Mar 24

npm Supply Chain Security: Mistakes I Made Publishing My First Packages

#security #node #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Wallet Guy

Mar 24

One Agent, Multiple Chains: EVM + Solana Wallet Infrastructure

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Raju Gundu

Mar 24

I got tired of AG Grid's paywall, so I built a free alternative

#showdev #opensource #react #typescript

2 min read

Mar 24

Your AI Agent Skills Have a Version Control Problem

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Mar 24

LiteLLM vs Bifrost: Which AI Gateway Is Right for Enterprise Teams?

#ai #architecture #llm #opensource

5 min read

Igor Ganapolsky

Mar 24

I Built a Self-Healing AI Trading Bot That Learns From Every Failure

#ai #trading #python #opensource

6 min read

Max

Mar 24

I built a memory system I'll never remember building

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

jidonglab

Mar 24

Security Warnings Preserved, Deprecated Noise Deleted

#ai #productivity #opensource #devops

2 min read

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