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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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Mar 6

Navidrome vs Emby: Which Music Server Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

David Lastrucci

Apr 9

Meet Trysil: a lightweight ORM for Delphi

#delphi #orm #database #opensource

3 min read

Paton Wong

Apr 9

Agentic tool use in Aerie workflows

#ai #agents #opensource #automation

9 min read

Nikolaos Protopapas

Mar 6

Building Terminal UIs in .NET: How SharpConsoleUI Complements Terminal.Gui

#dotnet #csharp #terminal #opensource

5 min read

Chris Knorowski

Mar 6

Fighting AI Developer Fatigue: Building a Control Plane with FastAPI and tmux

#ai #programming #python #opensource

4 min read

Harsh Raj Mishra

Mar 7

What If Your GitHub Profile Was a Building in a City of Developers?

#github #development #opensource #coding

3 min read

rodbv

Apr 9

Djangonaut diaries, week 6: Charting the Unknown Unknowns of a PR

#djangonaut #django #opensource

6 min read

Mar 29

Bayan Flow 0.3.0: From 6 to +20 Algorithms

#webdev #algorithms #opensource #learning

3 min read

Ali Alp

Mar 6

Introducing Tunnel Whisperer: Surgical Connectivity for Networks That Say "No"

#productivity #security #opensource

6 min read

Mar 30

Where We Are, What Is Left, and What You Will Actually Be Able to Do

#ai #webdev #opensource #typescript

5 min read

Jin Gong

Mar 30

Wails3 Template New Version: Faster Than Ever with a Completely Redesigned UI

#go #vue #opensource #wails3

2 min read

Optimized using real-world mesh data

Michael Muriithi

Apr 5

Building a Decentralized Mesh Network in Rust — Lessons from the Global South

#discuss #rust #privacy #opensource

3 min read

Mar 10

Apptron 0.7: Offline Sites, Console Embeds, and Much More

#showdev #go #vscode #opensource

5 min read

Wes

Apr 9

A Rust TUI for Your UniFi Network That Actually Takes Code Review Seriously

#opensource #rust #networking #cli

6 min read

Apr 8

A Year of Building snappycart in Public or 7 Mistakes I Learned the Hard Way

#npm #typescript #opensource #react

7 min read

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