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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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Jan 27

Building Stunning Interactive Mosaic Grids in React — Without the Complexity published: true

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

DEV Weekend Challenge: Community

Mar 1

BorrowHood: Every Garage Becomes a Rental Shop

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #python #opensource

5 min read

Mar 2

I Built More in 90 Days With $0 Than an $85M-Funded Team of 13 Engineers

#opensource #blockchain #startup #github

4 min read

Jan 27

Stop Uploading Sensitive PDFs: How I Built a Client-Side Redactor with Next.js

#opensource #javascript #webdev #security

2 min read

Ashish Krishna Pavan Gade

Jan 27

Cloudflare Outages: Causes, Impact, and Systemic Risk to the Internet

#security #productivity #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Fátima Said for Xygeni Security

Mar 2

New npm Infostealer Discovery: Nyx Stealer Hijacks Discord Sessions

#npm #cybersecurity #opensource #discord

6 min read

Andrea Debernardi

Jan 27

I was tired of database tools — so I started building my own

#database #rust #opensource #programming

2 min read

jelly cri

Jan 28

I Built a CLI Task Manager That Learns When to Use Machine Learning (and When Not To)

#showdev #python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Wes

Mar 2

This CLI Launches Parallel AI Agents. It Didn't Launch on Linux.

#opensource #typescript #ai #tooling

6 min read

Andrey Vasilevsky

Jan 27

I Built a Git Layer That Reads Your Mind (Here's Why Git Alone Isn't Enough)

#git #opensource #productivity #devtools

3 min read

Marcin Parśniak

Mar 2

Reccuring Revenue - Finovara

#java #programming #backend #opensource

1 min read

Jack Luar

Feb 19

OpenROAD MCP: Let AI Close Your Timing

#ai #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Jan 27

Introducing Flowrra: A Simpler Alternative to Celery

#python #redis #celery #opensource

2 min read

권용범

Mar 2

I built a one-click installer for OpenClaw AI agent

#opensource #electron #react #ai

2 min read

Mar 2

Vectorless RAG Meets Agent Memory: Running Hindsight + PageIndex Fully Local

#ai #machinelearning #rag #opensource

2 min read

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