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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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Peter Nasarah Dashe

May 11

The Onslaught: Why Nigeria's Volume of Cyber Attacks Is Overwhelming Defences

#cybersecurity #nigeria #fintech #opensource

5 min read

May 11

I Built an API to Showcase Top Contributors on GitHub READMEs

#github #api #opensource #readme

3 min read

May 11

SlideForge: Turn Markdown into Beautiful HTML Presentations with Asian Design Themes

#opensource #html #css #webdev

1 min read

Intally

May 11

Another WordPress AI Writer Plugin? Here Are 4 Honest Reasons We Built One

#wordpress #ai #opensource #byok

6 min read

Michel

May 11

Multi-tenant files em Postgres + S3 com RLS FORCE: como o GarraIA fechou 9 slices REST sem deixar brecha de tenant isolation

#rust #postgres #security #opensource

5 min read

GitHub “Finish-Up-A-Thon” Challenge Submission

Divyesh

May 27

Reviving a 12K+ Star Abandoned Library: toastr-next v3 🍞

#devchallenge #githubchallenge #typescript #opensource

6 min read

May 11

An open-source Virtual WebCam (alternative to DroidCam/Irium )

#discuss #programming #opensource #cpp

1 min read

blank

May 12

Best DynamoDB GUI Clients in 2026: 5 Tools Compared

#showdev #dynamodb #opensource #database

5 min read

May 11

I Built a Windows Study App with Mind Maps, PDF Viewer & Phone-to-PC Wi-Fi Sharing — StudyMind Pro

#showdev #productivity #beginners #opensource

2 min read

May 15

4 footguns integrating YouVersion's new platform API — and a clean Verse of the Day

#opensource #fastapi #react #api

5 min read

May 11

When I started running models locally, I thought quantization meant squeezing more into RAM. Turns o

#ai #llm #opensource #hardware

1 min read

Leo Ai

May 11

I Built an Autonomous AI Coding Factory That Opens GitHub PRs While You Sleep

#ai #opensource #devtools #automation

4 min read

AKP

May 11

I Built a Native Windows Music Player with WinUI 3 — Here's What I Learned

#music #csharp #dotnet #opensource

5 min read

May 11

## I Built an AI Quantum Circuit Compiler — Here’s What I Learned

#showdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

German

May 24

NIST published post-quantum standards in August 2024. Most developers haven't noticed.

#api #security #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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