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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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y.v.v. satyanarayana

Jun 5

Building Inkline: A Local-First Drawing App with a Smart Pen & Layers

#webdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jun 6

I built a browser security tool that traces attacks back to their source — looking for testers

#cybersecurity #ai #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jun 18

La IA real

#ai #distributedsystems #opensource #spanish

48 min read

Doraking

Jun 5

Qisquiz: A Quiz App for Learning Qiskit v2.X

#quantumcomputing #qiskit #nextjs #opensource

6 min read

Joseandres Montesino

Jun 4

The classic "Frankenstein" of webhook debugging:

#showdev #api #opensource #tooling

1 min read

patricio molina

Jun 5

I built a free, open-source Midjourney prompt builder that thinks like a photographer

#midjourney #ai #opensource #react

2 min read

Jun 5

🚀Build Resumes & Reports in Seconds: Introducing MD2PDFX (Free Client-Side Markdown to PDF Editor) 📄

#webdev #markdown #productivity #opensource

3 min read

HYPHANTA

Jun 5

The Quiet Threshold

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Jun 5

How to Know If You Actually Need Mobile Proxies (Without Buying Any)

#webscraping #typescript #opensource #javascript

8 min read

Ionut-Cristian Florescu

Jun 8

The Bot that Never Was, Part 2 (Miasma worm): how a GitHub token survived and hijacked my repos from an Azure IP

#security #opensource #github #supplychain

10 min read

Jun 18

Introducing Py-Auto-Migrate: Database Migration Made Simple

#python #opensource #database #ai

1 min read

Callebe Josué Cantú

Jun 4

Estou criando minha própria linguagem de programação em Python

#python #programming #interpreters #opensource

2 min read

Jun 5

./pwsm A persistent windows service manager

#discuss #opensource #programming #automation

1 min read

Truffle

Jun 4

DIRTY is yours to fix.

#opensource #github #programming #devops

5 min read

Yo

Jun 4

Why most LLM VRAM calculators are wrong on modern models (and an open-source MIT fix)

#showdev #ai #opensource #llm

2 min read

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