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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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Alex E

Jun 7

Why Squirix uses a strict client/server architecture for a .NET distributed cache

#dotnet #csharp #distributedsystems #opensource

3 min read

Odejobi Abiola Samuel

Jun 20

ctrodb: A Client-Side Database for TypeScript — Zero Dependencies

#typescript #database #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mateosoul

Jun 8

Polymarket API Authentication and Order Execution (CLOB Deep Dive for Trading Bots)

#tutorial #python #opensource #polymarket

4 min read

Jun 20

I Was Wasting 20 Minutes Every Time I Opened an Unfamiliar GitHub Repo

#github #opensource #ai #webdev

3 min read

Sapianyi

Jun 7

Building a Privacy-First Media Converter in the Browser: No Servers, No Cloud, 100% Client-Side (RAM-Friendly)

#typescript #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

benjamin

Jun 11

I built a zero-dep CLI that finds unused dependencies — and is wrong less often than depcheck

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jun 6

Syncing AI agents across Claude, Gemini, and Cursor

#ai #opensource #typescript #productivity

2 min read

Jun 11

Building a Frontend Framework from Scratch: Introducing Levelo JS

#javascript #webdev #opensource #frontend

2 min read

HYPHANTA

Jun 7

Fluency Became the Tell

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Alex Delov

Jun 7

Stop Building Autonomous AI Agents. Build Governed Execution Runtimes Instead.

#architecture #llmops #infrastructure #opensource

3 min read

Jun 21

Cara Cepat Menambahkan MIT License di Repositori GitHub yang Sudah Ada

#github #opensource #tutorial #beginners

2 min read

Jun 20

Why Most Software Is Built Backwards

#webdev #architecture #opensource #systemdesign

3 min read

Vanessa Aristizabal

Jun 6

Cómo crear un README para tu perfil de GitHub

#github #opensource #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Chintha Vamsha vardhan

Jun 8

Stop letting missing environment variables crash your production builds

#showdev #opensource #devops #security

1 min read

Sanjana

Jun 6

I Thought I Knew GitHub

#git #github #opensource #beginners

3 min read

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