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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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Buddy Henderson

May 22

How I Built a Drop-In Proxy to Slash My OpenAI Bills by 20%+ Automatically

#node #ai #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Zura Japoshvili

May 22

duckkit update — validate, encode, and new object utils 🦆

#showdev #javascript #opensource #typescript

2 min read

WonderLab

May 22

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 72): Andrej Karpathy Skills — Fix Four Chronic LLM Coding Problems With a Single CLAUDE.md

#opensource #ai #claude #karpathy

8 min read

Defrontera

May 22

184 free car brand logos (SVG + PNG), CDN-ready

#showdev #webdev #opensource #design

1 min read

Hiromi

May 22

Project: Restaurant Delivery CRUD

#opensource #sideprojects

3 min read

May 22

Building non-custodial copy trading on Hyperliquid: the parts that actually hurt

#ai #python #architecture #opensource

8 min read

Praveen

May 22

The "Ghost in the Repo": Why AI Agents break Git Blame

#ai #devops #opensource #security

2 min read

May 22

How We Picked Between PayPal and Crypto for a $500K/Year Digital Product Launch

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

3 min read

jadeja shaktisinh

May 22

We’re building gh-git-action-cli — an open-source local GitHub Actions runner in Go

#opensource #cicd #git #github

1 min read

May 22

Garbage Collection vs Deterministic Memory Regions in AiVM

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

jindy zhao

May 22

Why KubeVirt Needs a Governance Layer — and How We Built One

#kubevirt #kubernetes #opensource #devops

4 min read

May 22

GLIA — A holographic memory for AI agents that isn't a graph and isn't RAG

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

May 22

Making Data Integration Easier with SeaTunnel Web

#showdev #dataengineering #opensource #tooling

2 min read

MiniKao

May 22

I open-sourced 24 QA skills for Claude Code — from spec to release

#claudecode #qa #testing #opensource

4 min read

Albert

May 26

How I built 149 statically generated tool pages with Next.js

#nextjs #typescript #seo #opensource

6 min read

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