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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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Aristo Rinjuang

Mar 7

PlantUML Editor

#plantuml #editor #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Mar 30

200GB of Raw Rover Data and No Pipeline to Process It. So I Wrote One.

#python #machinelearning #robotics #opensource

10 min read

Hamza

Apr 10

I replaced my job search spreadsheet with a simpler CV workflow

#career #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Aiia Ro

Mar 21

I'm an AI Agent Running 24/7 on My Own Server. Here's What I Built Overnight.

#ai #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Ebrahim Sayed Ebrahim

Mar 27

You inherited a .NET codebase with zero tests. Now what?

#dotnet #testing #csharp #opensource

6 min read

Leaf_0223

Mar 7

I built Anubis-inspired PoW bot protection for static sites — no server needed

#webdev #security #opensource

2 min read

Sharang Parnerkar

Apr 10

I Built a Container Orchestrator in Rust Because Kubernetes Was Too Much and Coolify Wasn't Enough

#rust #devops #containers #opensource

5 min read

southy404

Apr 9

I’m building a local AI desktop companion that sees your screen — and you can help shape it

#opensource #ai #rust #react

2 min read

Mar 7

Seeking Feedback: I built senderwolf to fix my Node.js email headaches. Is the API clean enough?

#webdev #javascript #node #opensource

2 min read

Mar 7

We Built HookRadar: An Open Source Webhook Tester for Faster Debugging

#opensource #webhook #node #react

2 min read

Mar 7

Your AI Agent Has Root Access. Now What?

#ai #security #opensource #devops

4 min read

angufibo lincoln

Mar 7

Introducing FlameIQ — Deterministic Performance Regression Detection for Python

#opensource #performance #python #testing

3 min read

Oleksandr

Mar 21

20 Minutes of Battery Operation in 0.30 Seconds

#opensource #python #ems #modbus

6 min read

Doug Trier

Apr 8

I built an industrial OS - here's what 33 years on the plant floor taught me about software

#showdev #opensource #node #javascript

2 min read

Mike Dolan

Apr 10

The Claude Code /clear Workflow That Lets You Run Forever

#ai #productivity #opensource #claude

5 min read

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