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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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Paul Stamp

Apr 18

ServiceKit V2 — The Async Service Locator for Unity

#showdev #architecture #gamedev #opensource

3 min read

Apr 18

Why I built a lossless alternative to AI memory summarization

#claudecode #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Yaniv

Apr 17

Why I Built an AI-Powered Test Data Generator (and When You Shouldn't Use AI for Fixtures)

#testing #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 17

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Jerome Thayananthajothy

Apr 18

I Built a Simple CLI to Check Plagiarism and AI-Generated Text (Locally)

#academic #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

k38f

Apr 16

How I built a progress bar library in 300 lines of Python

#python #tutorial #cli #opensource

6 min read

Apr 18

Brain, Explained

#ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Pawan Singh Kapkoti

Apr 18

How I Reverse-Engineered a Reverse ETL Tool and Wrote the Docs Nobody Had

#python #tutorial #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Apr 18

The Unfiltered Log of Shipping Open-Source v2 with AI Agents

#webdev #react #opensource

6 min read

Apr 16

Stop Rebuilding Your Claude Code Setup - Scaffold It Once with Worclaude

#claudecode #claude #ai #opensource

2 min read

Kacper Włodarczyk

Apr 18

Full Observability in AI Agents: What We Added to the pydantic-deepagents TUI

#python #ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Lyra

Apr 18

Scrub Your Btrfs Before It Scrubs You: Practical `btrfs scrub` + systemd timer

#linux #opensource #storage #devops

6 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Apr 18

Building Apps That Act on Behalf of OSC Users (OAuth + PKCE in 50 Lines)

#oauth #webdev #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Apu & Opu

Apr 18

I Built “Sousa” — a Detective-Style Investigation Board App

#opensource #react #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Oluwafemi Sosami

Apr 18

Built a Paystack package for Go because our system demanded it

#showdev #api #go #opensource

8 min read

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