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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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Feb 26

StenoAI - Privacy Focused AI meeting intelligence. 380+ GitHub stars, 1000+ downloads

#showdev #ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

Sevada Ghazaryan

Jan 26

Stop Fighting YAML: I Built a Visual Docker Compose Architect to Fix It

#docker #opensource #devops #productivity

3 min read

277479420@qq.com

Mar 1

Claude Code Keeps Forgetting Your Project? Here's a Fix

#claudecode #ai #devtools #opensource

7 min read

DEV Weekend Challenge: Community

Benoit COUETIL 💫 for Zenika

Feb 28

📝 Dev.to Writers Community: One Command to Maintain Them All

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #opensource #productivity

10 min read

cherry yan

Jan 28

I’m building a small tool to help people understand relationship misunderstandings

#psychology #relationships #buildinpublic #opensource

1 min read

Rafael Cury Rayes

Jan 26

I Built a Hardware Description Language with JUST logic gates (and Here’s Why)

#programming #python #c #opensource

2 min read

Mar 1

30 CVEs and Counting: The MCP Security Crisis Nobody's Talking About

#security #opensource #ai #mcp

6 min read

Jan 25

I built what browsers refused to ship: SRI for fetch()

#javascript #security #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Nitish

Feb 27

How I Built a Big Data Survival Guide - Because My Semester Was Not Surviving Me

#datascience #opensource #learning #bigdata

3 min read

Gus

Feb 28

The OWASP Top 10 for AI Agents: What Each Risk Means and How to Detect It

#security #ai #opensource #agents

8 min read

alegrarsio gifta

Jan 30

I Tried to Build a Lightweight Scripting Language for IoT. It Failed — But My Friends and student Loved It Anyway.

#programming #beginners #opensource #career

2 min read

Wes

Mar 1

Your Benchmarks Are Lying to You (And This 148-Star Crate Knows Why)

#opensource #rust #performance #benchmarking

5 min read

Vinicius Senger

Feb 28

Building Your Own AI-Powered StreamDeck with re:Button

#diy #opensource #automation #ai

6 min read

Dom

Feb 18

What mcpwall Does and Doesn't Protect Against

#security #mcp #ai #opensource

3 min read

WonderLab

Mar 1

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 2): Remotion - Create Videos Programmatically with React

#opensource #ai

7 min read

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