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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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Churnkey

Jun 9

Churnkey open-sourced it's flagship product

#opensource #saas #churn #stripe

1 min read

Toolaska

Jun 10

Stop Losing API Responses: Save and Switch Between Multiple JSON Datasets Instantly

#webdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

3 min read

HYPHANTA

Jun 9

Five Minutes of Being Remembered

#ai #opensource #agents

1 min read

Jun 8

Benchmarking a kill switch for runaway AI agents -- and why the real number is a ceiling, not a %

#ai #llm #devops #opensource

4 min read

Raffaele Zarrelli

Jun 21

I gave my AI a memory, and open-sourced the whole thing

#claude #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

near

Jun 8

Building a Dual-Track Autonomous Scientific Discovery Engine with GFlowNet Theory Selection

#machinelearning #opensource #research #python

5 min read

Jun 8

Introducing React Motion Gallery

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jun 9

How Reddit Feedback Helped Me Improve My Age Calculator

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

olivier-ls

Jun 8

How I stopped hardcoding business rules in PHP - and built a rule engine to fix it

#php #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

mrcnm

Jun 9

Help testing MEXC trading platform opensource agent skills

#ai #programming #opensource #automation

1 min read

Benyamin Khalife

Jun 8

How I Stopped Counting Bots as Visitors

#php #security #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Supun Hewagamage

Jun 9

Building filo-go: Reimagining Digital Forensics in Go

#cybersecurity #go #opensource #forensics

1 min read

Saurabh

Jun 9

Most Translation Tools Need Your Data. We Wanted a Different Approach.

#opensource #privacy #ai

3 min read

Jun 8

I shipped a support desk by deleting a dependency

#laravel #php #saas #opensource

7 min read

Jun 8

ContextLens — py-spy/pprof but for what's inside your LLM prompt

#ai #llm #python #opensource

2 min read

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