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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.

submission guidelines

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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WonderLab

Apr 29

One Open Source Project a Day (No.51): VibeVoice - Microsoft's Speech AI That Processes 90 Minutes of Audio in a Single Pass

#asr #tts #microsoft #opensource

9 min read

May 10

Two weeks of building Bible School LMS in public: first contributor, bilingual content, real production bug

#opensource #react #fastapi #supabase

5 min read

port

Apr 27

I built a copy-for-LLMs button for Docusaurus. Then Ethereum and Sui shipped it.

#docusaurus #ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Nitish

Apr 27

GitHub Suspended Me. Turns Out, That Was Fine

#opensource #git #codeberg #learning

6 min read

Apr 28

Odoo 19 Introduces Context – Aware Automation Across Core Modules

#news #automation #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Apr 27

I Built the First Deterministic Urdu Compound Word Detector — Here's Why It Took a Full Library to Get There

#nlp #opensource #typescript #dotnet

11 min read

Sudheer Reddy Patlolla

Apr 27

Fixing a Hidden Infinite Loop in Robot Framework's TypeInfoParser: A Deep Dive

#robotframework #python #opensource #testing

3 min read

Arun KT

Apr 27

Apple wants $199 for a Touch ID keyboard. I shipped a free one in Swift!

#swift #opensource #security

4 min read

Apr 27

I got tired of AI agents trashing my codebase, so I built a skill to fix that

#ai #productivity #opensource #vibecoding

5 min read

Kat Laszlo

Apr 27

A single HTML file for architecture docs

#opensource #ai #documentation #webdev

3 min read

Alan West

Apr 28

How to Stop Getting Garbage Sprite Sheets from AI Image Generators

#gamedev #python #ai #opensource

5 min read

V. Vinay

Apr 28

“Packets, Chaos, and Why the Internet Still Works Perfectly”

#programming #opensource #architecture #performance

2 min read

Apr 27

ArchScope Dev Journal

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Apr 27

UTMP being phased out: - Why "who" returns empty output on modern ubuntu

#ubuntu #linux #devops #opensource

3 min read

vk0dev

Apr 27

I read 30 of my Claude Code session logs and built a small tool

#claude #mcp #opensource

4 min read

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