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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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Giovanni Sizino Ennes

Apr 28

I built an open-source MCP server that lints a CV against 5 real ATS parsers

#mcp #opensource #career #node

3 min read

Alan West

Apr 27

How to Stop Your GitHub Issues From Becoming a Graveyard

#github #opensource #automation #productivity

5 min read

Shrijal Acharya

Apr 28

My speaker broke, so I built a LAN speaker

#go #opensource #productivity #programming

6 min read

Apr 28

Top 10 Open Source Projects for Beginners to Contribute To

#opensource #github #programming #beginners

3 min read

Isaac Lee

Apr 27

Codemod for ignoring lint errors

#showdev #javascript #ember #opensource

2 min read

nyaomaru

Apr 28

Handling `unknown` in TypeScript… isn't it painful?

#typescript #opensource #programming #webdev

3 min read

Apr 28

I tried every TypeScript Result library. So I built a better one.

#typescript #javascript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

muhammed shahid

Apr 28

I Built a Zero-Parameter Image Enhancement Pipeline — Here's How It Works

#computervision #javascript #webdev #opensource

8 min read

Ruben

Apr 28

I replaced my personal tracking spreadsheets with mini-apps I built myself

#opensource #nextjs #webdev #productivity

1 min read

Christopher Maher

Apr 28

TurboQuant on a MacBook Pro: two findings the upstream discussion missed

#ai #llm #kubernetes #opensource

7 min read

freerave

Apr 28

Building a Universal Drafts System in a VS Code Extension — Part 2: Sync, UI & Remote Drafts

#vscode #typescript #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Eshaan

Apr 28

Stop Re-explaining Your Code to AI: How I Built a Local-First "Long-Term Memory" Engine

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Noyan

Apr 28

How I shipped a government contract demo through Claude Code

#claude #ai #tooling #opensource

4 min read

Aditya

Apr 28

I Built a Go Project Scaffolding Tool (Because the Ecosystem Needed One)

#go #opensource #ai #productivity

4 min read

Apr 28

GoGPU - 790K Lines of Pure Go: Multi-Window GPU Apps, DXIL Compiler, and Why We Don't Need CGO

#go #opensource #programming #webdev

13 min read

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