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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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May 12

I built my own programming language at 19 — Akro (runs in the browser, no install)

#programming #opensource #typescript #beginners

1 min read

Fabibi

May 16

Catch docs-to-code drift in TypeScript PRs before merge

#typescript #githubactions #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Wojciech Wentland

May 12

Loading code without the disk: what each OS lets you get away with

#python #linux #security #opensource

7 min read

Hussain

May 12

Zero Downtime Laravel Deployments Made Easy with phantomshift/laravel-deployer

#laravel #php #devops #opensource

1 min read

May 26

I Built PAIDEIA: A Local-First Claude Code Plugin for Studying From Your Own Course Materials

#ai #productivity #opensource #learning

3 min read

Davide-btc

May 26

Building a local-first operational AI workspace instead of another chatbot

#showdev #ai #devops #opensource

1 min read

ToolsMatic

May 12

I was a broke student who couldn't afford software subscriptions so I spent 4 months building free alternatives to all of them.

#showdev #opensource #webdev #productivity

1 min read

Roshan Jonnalagadda

May 26

We Built a Feedback Widget That Ships Submissions Straight to Your Inbox

#ai #webcomponents #opensource #sideprojects

3 min read

thehwang

May 12

Building a 100% Local Meeting Transcription App for macOS with whisper.cpp and ScreenCaptureKit

#swift #opensource #ai #productivity

7 min read

May 12

I built a PowerToys Quick Accent alternative for Linux

#showdev #linux #productivity #opensource

1 min read

TommyDee

May 16

I just open-sourced 13 MIT libraries for web visual effects

#showdev #webgl #javascript #opensource

2 min read

May 12

I Built a Local-First Alternative to LangSmith After Spending $200 Debugging a Pipeline I Couldn't See | Shivnath Tathe

#python #llm #openai #opensource

2 min read

Benjamin Koimett

May 16

The AI-Ready Engineer: Why Nation.dev’s Visit to Zone01 Kisumu Changes the Game for African Tech

#career #ai #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Shorya

May 12

I built my own Buy Me a Coffee because I was tired of platform fees and Stripe gatekeeping

#webdev #opensource #buymeacoffee #sideprojects

2 min read

Bizbox

May 12

Deep Dive: The awaiting_human Status — Rethinking Agent-Human Handoff in Bizbox

#ai #productivity #opensource #automation

5 min read

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