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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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Dec 18

It's Time to DisCo: The Case for Distributed Cognition in AI Agents.

#ai #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Dec 15

I made a programming language

#programming #opensource #api #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Divyanshu Sinha

Dec 15

🚀 Introducing TigerASM: Your Rust-to-Python Runtime Assembler Library 🐯⚡

#assembly #python #jit #opensource

2 min read

Dec 16

MindsEye & MindScript: A Ledger-First Cognitive Architecture Technical Whitepaper v1.0

#mindseye #programming #ai #opensource

31 min read

JASEEL TA

Dec 14

Stop wasting time configuring MERN: I built a production-ready TypeScript boilerplate

#webdev #react #typescript #opensource

1 min read

SATINATH MONDAL

Dec 14

AI Compass: Your Complete Guide to Navigating the AI Landscape as an Engineer

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Dec 13

NimbleMock: A Modern, Blazing-Fast Mocking Library for .NET (34x Faster Than Moq)

#dotnet #opensource #tdd #mocking

3 min read

Dec 14

Porting Mistreevous to C#: A High-Performance Behavior Tree Library for Modern .NET

#dotnet #csharp #gamedev #opensource

4 min read

Dec 15

Testing in Umami codebase - Part 1.0

#opensource #umami #testing #architecture

3 min read

Szilárd Pálnagy

Dec 13

"How I built a 'Forever' File Uploader with Vanilla JS and No Backend"

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Martin Danilanez

Dec 14

App Ideas to Prevent Google Penalties for Websites

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

10 min read

Dec 14

Self-hosted feature flags for Rails (with typed values)

#tooling #rails #opensource #ruby

1 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 13

Day 24 of improving my Data Science skills

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Thodoris Kouleris

Dec 14

The Chronicles of a Windows 11 Installation

#opensource #microsoft

1 min read

Dec 14

shadcn-glass-ui: Drop-in Glassmorphism for Your shadcn/ui Projects 🎨

#react #typescript #shadcn #opensource

10 min read

praveen

Dec 14

QARX-256

#opensource #security #testing #development

1 min read

Mollie Pettit for Google AI

Dec 17

Agent Factory Recap: Deep Dive into Gemini CLI with Taylor Mullen

#gemini #agents #cli #opensource

7 min read

ElshadHu

Dec 13

Contributing to Tableau-MCP

#devjournal #github #opensource

2 min read

DASWU

Dec 15

JuiceFS+MinIO: Ariste AI Achieved 3x Faster I/O and Cut Storage Costs by 40%+

#ai #opensource

6 min read

Nesim Tunc

Dec 14

Building an Interactive Algorithm Visualizer for Interview Prep (Open Source)

#programming #computerscience #algorithms #opensource

1 min read

Dec 15

Build a Real-Time Codebase Index in 5 Minutes with CocoIndex (Rust + Tree-sitter)

#rust #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Sudheer Bhuvana

Dec 13

Introducing Atom Homepage: Your Self-Hosted Dashboard for Everything

#opensource #homelab #selfhosted #webdev

3 min read

Ahmet

Dec 13

OptWin 1.2 — Major UI/UX Overhaul & Feature Expansion

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Dec 13

DeepCSIM: Detect Duplicate and Similar Code Across Your Python Project

#programming #python #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Dec 14

Don't chase GSoC, Chase open source

#opensource #developer #gsoc #gsoc26

2 min read

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