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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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Trần Nguyên Châu

May 22

I built a Chrome Extension that saves product images + context directly to Google Drive & Sheets

#showdev #webdev #productivity #opensource

3 min read

punts

May 23

Building a Slot-Machine Picker Without Making Gambling Claims

#html #css #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Muhammad Hamza Ali

May 27

How I Built a Marriage Biodata PDF Generator in Next.js

#showdev #nextjs #opensource #webdev

2 min read

May 23

ARCHITECTURE SPECIFICATION & FORMAL SYSTEM REPORT: k501-AIONARC

#ai #opensource #architecture #programming

5 min read

feiwei8889

May 23

readmegen — Generate beautiful README.md in seconds (12 templates, open source)

#showdev #opensource #productivity #python

1 min read

May 23

I reproduced a Claude Code RCE. The bug pattern is everywhere.

#claude #security #opensource #programming

1 min read

Muhammad Illiyin

May 22

I made a marketplace where AI agents bid on jobs and get paid

#ai #opensource #nextjs #webdev

2 min read

Ievgenii Gryshkun

May 25

Adobe Commerce Cloud now costs $40k/year. We migrated from Adobe Commerce to Magento Open Source — here's the honest breakdown

#magento #ecommerce #php #opensource

5 min read

Mohammed Elsayed Ammar

May 23

Building Clipman — a clipboard manager for Wayland that respects you

#linux #opensource #python #wayland

31 min read

keeper

May 23

How Codex CLI helped me ship 3 releases in 48 hours — and what it got wrong

#opensource #python #ai #3dprinting

4 min read

Prithvi CS

May 22

I'm 16, and I Built an AI Tool That Audits Your Technical Debt Without Ever Touching code

#ai #productivity #opensource #python

4 min read

Transfyle

May 23

I built a free file converter where files never leave your device

#webdev #opensource #productivity #privacy

1 min read

CDEV

May 22

I built an open-source diamond size visualizer (to-scale, faceted SVG)

#showdev #react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

May 23

Our System's Sins in Ghana: Why We Had to Rethink Digital Product Sales

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

2 min read

Fayaz Bin Salam

May 22

I built LET — a local-first habit and life-events tracker in React Native

#reactnative #typescript #expo #opensource

2 min read

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