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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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Giorgi Kobaidze

Apr 26

15 Essential Sections Every README Needs: Give Your Project What It Deserves

#documentation #opensource #tutorial #development

11 min read

Alan West

Apr 27

How to Stop Your GitHub Issues From Becoming a Graveyard

#github #opensource #automation #productivity

5 min read

Apr 28

I Stopped Fighting WordPress… So I Rebuilt How I Use It

#webdev #wordpress #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Isaac Lee

Apr 27

Codemod for ignoring lint errors

#showdev #javascript #ember #opensource

2 min read

Apr 28

The Jupyter notebook bug that only crashes for other people

#python #jupyter #datascience #opensource

3 min read

Leonard O Sullivan

Apr 28

nat-zero: scale-to-zero NAT instances for AWS

#aws #terraform #devops #opensource

5 min read

Mehdi Hassan Jony

Apr 28

I Couldn't Afford AWS Cognito Experience — So I Built It Myself

#opensource #aws #microsoft #paidalternative

4 min read

WonderLab

Apr 28

One Open Source Project a Day (No.50): The TypeScript Wizard Pushed His .claude Directory to GitHub and Hit #1 Worldwide Overnight

#ai #opensource #agents #skill

9 min read

Lyra

Apr 28

Stop Hand-Crafting Service Users: Practical `systemd-sysusers` for Declarative Linux Accounts

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

Apr 28

Your AI is swinging at nothing — 6 cognitive firewalls that cut my prod bugs by 87%

#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

10 min read

henryopen

Apr 28

I built a self-hosted dashboard for running Claude Code across 8 machines

#showdev #claude #opensource #ai

4 min read

Cookcoco

Apr 28

I built an open-source tool to distill books into knowledge graphs

#opensource #llm #cli #productivity

3 min read

depmedicdev-byte

Apr 28

I scanned 5 popular OSS repos in 5 minutes. Here's what I found.

#github #devops #opensource #ci

4 min read

Apr 28

How I Built a Rust CLI Tool That Beats POSIX diff (and Saved My CI/CD Pipelines)

#rust #devops #cli #opensource

3 min read

Lucas Neves Pereira

Apr 27

I added voice messages to my self-hosted AI agent, for free

#go #ai #discord #opensource

5 min read

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