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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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Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 18

The Foundation Update: From Theory to Working Federation

#activitypub #cloudflare #opensource #typescript

5 min read

Feb 17

I Tried Coding With AI Glasses. Here’s What Actually Happened.

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Feb 18

Every AI Agent Framework Trusts the Agent. That's the Problem.

#ai #security #distributedsystems #opensource

5 min read

freerave

Feb 18

Building the Brain of My VS Code Extension 🧠 (v1.5.0 Devlog)

#showdev #vscode #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Feb 17

How We Added Per-Video Download Controls

#go #webdev #opensource #security

4 min read

Feb 17

Introducing Quackback: Open-Source Feedback Platform with a Built-in MCP Server

#opensource #selfhosted #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Abhishek Sharma

Feb 18

Your prompts have a vendor lock-in problem and it's hiding in plain text

#ai #llm #programming #opensource

3 min read

Muhammadjon Aminov

Feb 18

Introducing TajikGPT — The First AI Platform from Tajikistan 🇹🇯

#ai #llm #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Feb 18

GStreamer

#architecture #opensource #programming #tutorial

4 min read

Feb 18

Your Go Background Jobs Are Silently Failing. Here’s How to Fix It

#go #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Feb 18

I built an open-source Vercel alternative in Rust — here's what I learned

#webdev #devops #opensource #rust

8 min read

Feb 18

The packaging bugs I kept shipping (and the tool I built to stop)

#typescript #npm #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Louis Weston for Distr

Feb 17

Alerts for self-hosted customer deployments

#devops #opensource #containers #automation

2 min read

Feb 18

I built an AI memory API with 3 memory types — here's why facts alone aren't enough published

#ai #opensource #python #javascript

4 min read

Robert Goniszewski

Feb 18

Grimoire: A Retrospective on Building Open Source Tools

#sveltekit #bunjs #drizzleorm #opensource

3 min read

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