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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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Jun 7

I Built 67+ Free Browser Developer Tools — No API, No Signup, No Ads

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Jun 7

The math of finding edge in prediction markets (and the open-source tools I built)

#python #opensource #trading #ai

3 min read

Jun 7

The Packet Format: 90 Bytes and One Cursed Byte

#discuss #learning #opensource #programming

3 min read

Jun 7

Building a Brain in Pure Python

#python #neuroscience #opensource #learning

5 min read

Saurabh C.

Jun 7

Picard OSS: Legal AI That Lives on Your Machine, Refuses to Bluff, and Ships Binaries

#ai #opensource #privacy #rag

8 min read

Jun 7

logdive v0.3.0 — the one where I finally added parens (and four more things my heart wanted)

#showdev #rust #opensource #devops

7 min read

Jun 7

I Built a VS Code Extension for Google's Antigravity CLI (Because I Refuse to Leave My Editor)

#vscode #opensource #antigravity #buildinpublic

4 min read

Muhammad Gharis

Jun 7

I Built a Lightweight CRM Starter Kit in Core PHP — No Laravel, No Composer, No Framework Bloat

#php #webdev #opensource #productivity

3 min read

RAHUL GARG

Jun 7

I got tired of writing the same API test 200 times, so I built a library

#productivity #testing #dotnet #opensource

3 min read

Ashen Chathuranga

Jun 7

Solving the Linux 'Fake 100%' USB Copy Problem: True USB Write Progress

#linux #gnome #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Jun 7

Postman now limits its free tier to 1 user. Here's what I switched to.

#webdev #tooling #api #opensource

1 min read

danio

Jun 7

Ideogram 4.0 goes open-weight, Claude finds 10k vulns, and Meta's WhatsApp agent goes global

#ai #opensource #devtools #security

2 min read

Truffle

Jun 7

The hour after the primitive.

#go #programming #softwaredesign #opensource

5 min read

Tyler

Jun 7

I built a smoke detector for AI agent wallets

#ai #python #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Dhrupo Nil

Jun 7

I translated my 7,000-line AI-coding handbook with 12 parallel AI agents

#ai #opensource #beginners #learning

3 min read

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