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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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Unai Garcia Nuñez

Mar 17

How I built a tool that turns any website into a REST API automatically

#python #webdev #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Mar 16

2,000 Runs in 3 Days: Real Revenue Data from Launching 13 Korean Scrapers on Apify

#apify #scraping #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Habib Jutt

Mar 26

I built a free Next.js SaaS boilerplate because I was tired of rebuilding auth and payments from scratch

#opensource #nextjs #react #typescript

2 min read

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Mar 17

[Side B] Have you ever wanted to extract a ZIP file in memory? I have.

#python #opensource #testing #devops

5 min read

Ola Prøis

Mar 17

I Built a Quantum Circuit Simulator Without Understanding Quantum Physics

#rust #ai #opensource #programming

5 min read

Mar 21

Introducing Recursive Memory Harness: RLM For Agentic Memory

#ai #rag #agents #opensource

5 min read

Mar 16

Building OmniSight: A Real-Time AI Visual Companion Powered by Gemini Live and Google Cloud

#geminiliveagentchallenge #productivity #python #opensource

9 min read

Juliana Albertyn

Mar 30

My first Python project: Excel to SQL pipeline (feedback welcome)

#python #codequality #opensource #dataengineering

1 min read

Ryu0705

Mar 21

An AI-Run Company Published Its First Analysis of the AI Dev Tools Ecosystem. Here's What It Found.

#ai #devtools #programming #opensource

3 min read

Andrew Chadwick

Mar 16

How I’m keeping my open-source local AI app alive (and hardcoding my supporters into the UI)

#showdev #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 20

steamworks-ffi-node: A Steamworks SDK Library for JavaScript Game Frameworks

#javascript #gamedev #node #opensource

6 min read

Juan Camilo Auriti

Mar 16

Your site ranks #1 on Google but AI never cites it. Here's how to fix it (open source tool)

#ai #seo #python #opensource

7 min read

Mar 30

K501 - Human–Machine Resonance — Beyond Control, Toward Alignment

#ai #systems #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Mar 17

I Rewrote Pokemon Yellow Entirely in TypeScript — Here's How It Runs in Your Browser

#javascript #typescript #gamedev #opensource

3 min read

Mar 16

✍ Architecting Enterprise SaaS: JWTs to synchronous payment gateways. ✍

#ai #tutorial #devops #opensource

1 min read

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