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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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kiwi_tech

Apr 22

Kiwi-chan Devlog #007: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Apr 22

Building a coding course generator in public #2: what I learned

#buildinpublic #opensource #ai #webdev

6 min read

Anton Minin Baranovskii

Apr 22

Toqen.app Mobile is Now Open Source

#opensource #authentication #infosec #cybersecurity

3 min read

Emin Salih Açıkgöz

Apr 21

Atomic Scaffolding: How scbake Prevents Configuration Mishaps

#go #devops #opensource #tools

4 min read

drtobbyas

Apr 22

EP2: Mapping the Labyrinth: How Coolify Deploys Your Apps (and Why K8s Fits)

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #coolify

3 min read

Claudiu Dascalescu for Xata

Apr 22

Introducing Xata OSS: Postgres platform with branching, now Apache 2.0

#postgres #opensource #database #devops

7 min read

Abu Hasnat Nobin

Apr 22

I built a zero-dependency React Native animation library — 14 drop-in components, native driver only.

#reactnative #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Apr 22

I was tired of re-explaining my project to Claude every session

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

5 min read

nyaomaru

Apr 22

is-kit vs Zod: A Practical Comparison from 3 Perspectives

#typescript #opensource #programming #productivity

3 min read

Apr 22

I Fine-Tuned a Compliance Judge and Beat the Stock Model by +29.6pp F1

#machinelearning #python #opensource #nlp

6 min read

manojradhakrishnan

Apr 22

Prism: A stateless payment integration library extracted from 4 years of production

#showdev #api #backend #opensource

11 min read

Apr 22

Why Pattern-Matching Scanners Miss Structural Bugs (and What I Built Instead)

#ai #security #opensource #typescript

5 min read

autodrive-cyber

Apr 22

Your Agent Is Dead Between Tasks. I Fixed That.

#ai #agents #automation #opensource

3 min read

dband drm

Apr 22

Deploy to Oracle with drm-cli + Flyway: A Step-by-Step Guide

#database #devops #oracle #opensource

5 min read

Mary Olowu

Apr 22

Stop Writing Custom Scrapers: Index Static Content into Meilisearch with One Config

#meilisearch #search #typescript #opensource

4 min read

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