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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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Stefan Sabolowitsch

Jun 24

Vaultwarden-Plus: A Password Manager Built for Operators

#vaultwarden #selfhosted #security #opensource

5 min read

Jun 24

Ethos: A english like easy to use programming language for beginners

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Jun 24

SoulForge: Build AI Companions with Emotional Bonds, Not Rules

#ai #opensource #python

2 min read

Christopher Maher

Jun 24

A 27B model on an AMD mini-PC fixed a bug in our operator. Then it overreached.

#kubernetes #ai #llm #opensource

5 min read

Yuriy for Adal

Jun 24

Why I made Adal CLI Open Source

#opensource #privacy #cli #security

3 min read

Jun 24

I Open-Sourced My AI Project to Tell the World: AI Shouldnt Be a Tool, It Should Be Family

#ai #opensource #python #emotionalai

3 min read

Gareth1953

Jun 24

x402 configs can fail silently. I made a small preflight checker for the easy-to-miss details.

#web3 #javascript #opensource #testing

3 min read

Jun 24

I got a merged PR into a YC startup before they ever replied to my job application

#discuss #career #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Jun 24

好，信息够了。开写。

#ai #automation #opensource

1 min read

NextAura Technologies

Jun 24

I Built a Free Docs Converter Platform with 40+ Tools Using Next.js

#webdev #opensource #software #typescript

2 min read

Shuo Wu

Jun 24

I Built an AI Reading Companion with Tree-Structured Conversations

#showdev #ai #opensource #reading

4 min read

Ranork

Jun 24

How I Built an MCP-Native Open-Source Notion Alternative

#showdev #agents #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Jun 24

# ⚙️ I Spent Months Building a Pixel-Art Universe Called Cog & Cosmos 🌌

#gamedev #webdev #github #opensource

2 min read

FlutWiz

Jun 24

Why Open Source API Tools Are Having a Moment

#ai #api #opensource #programming

2 min read

ILX Studio, LLC

Jun 24

I was tired of heavyweight dev tools — so I built my own

#python #opensource #devtools #productivity

2 min read

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