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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 24

How to sync Context across AI Assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity...) in your browser

#ai #opensource #tutorial #programming

9 min read

Natasha Robinson

Jun 25

Building an Intelligent Cross-Chain Transaction Optimizer with Python & Gemini AI

#blockchain #python #generativeai #opensource

3 min read

Sharon

Jun 25

Secure Your Site in Minutes: Open-Source WAF With 99%+ Accuracy and Zero Hassle

#safeline #waf #opensource #cybersecurity

3 min read

Mistants

Jun 25

I couldn't find a simple sound player for my project, so I built and open-sourced one.

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 25

Modul tampilkan di Earl: Menampilkan Nilai dengan Format yang Terkontrol

#programming #opensource #beginners #indonesia

2 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jun 24

The 90-Minute Code Sprint: Why Most Developers Get Deep Work Duration Wrong

#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

8 min read

Jun 25

How to Set Up a Simple Uptime Monitor Using Only GitHub Actions

#opensource #github #githubactions #webdev

2 min read

Jun 25

Introducing CursorNinja – One Script to Install, Update & Setup the Cursor Editor!

#bash #linux #opensource #cli

1 min read

Jun 24

React Native Animated Content Scroll - Update

#reactnative #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Fusen

Jun 24

I Built My Own Programming Language and its Virtual Machine In Python!

#showdev #python #learning #opensource

4 min read

Jun 24

Hands-on Go — Advancing with Practical Examples

#opensource #go #programming #webdev

2 min read

motion team for Motion

Jun 24

How One Engineer Saved Us $110K and Ended Our Database Nightmare 🚀

#webdev #programming #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Sivaram

Jun 24

How I Serve 4.5 Million Star Wars API Requests for Free

#webdev #programming #opensource #cloud

3 min read

perber

Jun 24

🐶 Dogfooding LeafWiki – Why Using Your Own Tool Matters

#devjournal #webdev #opensource #selfhosted

3 min read

Niladri Chakraborty

Jun 24

Tired of a Messy Downloads Folder? Try Declutter CLI!

#node #cli #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Roberto

Jun 24

🚀 Tirne — Zero-Boilerplate APIs with Edge-Native Speed & Type-Safe Architecture

#showdev #webdev #opensource #backend

2 min read

Jun 24

DeepWiki: The AI-Powered Guide to Open Source Codebases You Didn’t Know You Needed

#ai #opensource #github #coding

3 min read

Siarhei Huzarevich

Jun 24

Design Node-Based Interfaces in Angular — A Beginner’s Guide with Foblex Flow

#angular #webdev #lowcode #opensource

4 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Jun 24

Join In-Person Community Meetup @Bengaluru, India

#techmeetup #opensource #presto #dataengineering

1 min read

Jun 24

0.email frontend is built using react-router framework.

#zero #email #react #opensource

2 min read

Younes

Jun 24

Discover Trending and Essential npm Packages with NPM Leaderboard

#npm #opensource #productivity #devtools

1 min read

kkb

Jun 24

Introducing Kubernetes MCP: Safe, Read-Only Kubernetes Operations with AI

#kubernetes #mcp #ai #opensource

3 min read

Ameh Mathias Ejeh

Jun 24

The Importance of Leveraging AI to Learn

#ai #development #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jun 24

Lock, Java, and two nulls: XMage edition

#java #opensource #xmage #unittest

12 min read

Shantanu

Jun 24

LiveHealthChecks - real time API Health Check monitoring

#opensource #architecture #api #aspnet

1 min read

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