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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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Mar 8

Shipping a GUI Without the .NET Runtime: 2 Months with MewUI, a Cross-Platform UI Framework

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #vibecoding

12 min read

Shanthosh

Mar 8

💊 The Dashboard Simulation is Lying to You: Why I Built Redpillx

#opensource #ai #powerplatform

3 min read

Mar 7

I Built a REST API for Bitcoin Core - Here's what I Learned

#bitcoin #api #python #opensource

5 min read

Manikandan Mariappan

Mar 7

React Is Now Officially Under the Linux Foundation — What This Means for Every Developer

#react #linux #opensource #development

10 min read

Gotham64

Mar 7

The Librarian Method: How OpenPawz solves tool bloat — and why memory matters

#ai #agents #memory #opensource

11 min read

TheCodeAlchemist

Mar 7

Introducing Archify: From Architecture Idea to Spring Boot Code

#productivity #java #opensource #springboot

3 min read

Mar 7

I built a visual README builder so you never have to write raw markdown again

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Sourav

Mar 7

I built 90+ free browser tools at beginthings.com -- here is the tech behind it

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 7

I built a free GitHub-profile / GitHub-repo view counter

#github #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

노력이부족

Mar 7

Building a Browser-Based NCM File Converter (NetEase Cloud Music to FLAC/MP3)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Muhammad Arslan

Mar 7

@hazeljs/flow: A Durable Execution Graph Engine for Node.js

#showdev #javascript #node #opensource

8 min read

Mar 7

A Dependency Injection tool for Go developers who hate frameworks

#go #architecture #backend #opensource

7 min read

Mar 7

Stop Getting Walls of AI Text — I Built a Tool That Shows Thinking Paths

#ai #javascript #electron #opensource

2 min read

Ronaldo Modesto

Mar 7

Protocols Visualizer: An Interactive Way to Learn Network Protocols

#cybersecurity #osi #network #opensource

1 min read

Mar 7

How to Trust-Gate Your AI Agent API in 3 Lines of Code

#ai #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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