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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

Godot 4 in Practice

#discuss #godot #gamedev #opensource

2 min read

Tai Tran

Jan 6

Handling JWT Refresh Tokens in Axios without the Headache

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jan 7

HRPO-X v1.0.1: from HRPO paper production-hardened runnable code

#reinforcementlearning #mlops #opensource #github

2 min read

Jan 7

The Architecture Behind Reliable Open-Source AI Agent Frameworks

#agents #ai #architecture #opensource

3 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 1

VCP v1.1 Implementation Guide Released: Building Cryptographic Audit Trails for Trading Systems

#ai #fintech #security #opensource

4 min read

Kowshik Jallipalli

Jan 6

I’m open-sourcing a protocol to automate neighborhood fairness. Here is the logic.

#discuss #architecture #automation #opensource

3 min read

Jan 2

🚀 Nike Website Clone | React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS

#react #typescript #tailwindcss #opensource

1 min read

Yang ella

Feb 6

0元搭建7 24h AI助手：OpenClaw云服务器部署完全指南

#ai #cloud #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Prasanth

Jan 2

Building Parallax: A Trust & Transparency Utility for Ubuntu Touch

#opensource #privacy #ubuntu #mobile

3 min read

Marco

Feb 2

Moltbook Exposed: It's Human Slop, Not AI Awakening

#ai #webdev #security #opensource

4 min read

hmza

Jan 1

LanManVan: How to Create Your Own Modules

#cybersecurity #go #metasploit #opensource

3 min read

Feb 5

TableCraft: From 5 Hours to 5 Minutes for Production-Ready Table APIs

#opensource #postgres #githubchallenge #githubcopilot

4 min read

Sherif

Jan 1

We built LAN Orangutan, a lightweight network scanner

#showdev #opensource #tooling #networking

1 min read

Jan 2

🚀 VanillaJS Sushi Animated Website | Built with Vite & JavaScript

#javascript #design #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Claudio González

Feb 6

Someone Paid around $2K to Destroy Our SEO. So We Built This.

#seo #cybersecurity #opensource #webdev

6 min read

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