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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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Jan 9

From Zero to SDF Editor Beta: How I Used AI to Force My Dream Project Out of the Prototype Stage. What I learned?

#discuss #python #sideprojects #opensource

3 min read

Lokajna

Jan 10

The Quiet Shift: From Chrome's Noise to Thorium's Silence

#browsers #privacy #opensource #chromium

3 min read

Pramod K B

Jan 9

My First Open Source Contribution Was to an Authentication Project — And It Was Surprisingly Friendly

#opensource #node #typescript #authentication

2 min read

Riccardo Tartaglia

Jan 9

How I build Rikta: a Zero-Config TypeScript Backend Framework

#showdev #typescript #opensource #node

8 min read

Jan 9

🌈 HRT Journey Tracker Suite

#webdev #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

Jan 9

I built a runtime execution kernel for AI agents — not another framework

#python #ai #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Marjo

Jan 10

I Built a Terminal UI for Firebase Firestore (and It Changed How I Work)

#firebase #opensource #cli #go

9 min read

Jan 8

Why I Rewrote Portage in Go: Introducing GRPM v0.1.0

#go #linux #opensource #programming

5 min read

Grafikui

Jan 10

Stop Building Flaky AI Agents: Introducing Transactional AI

#ai #opensource #javascript #architecture

4 min read

Jan 9

🚀 Stop drowning in Tabs: Meet Noi, the Open Source Browser Built for AI

#ai #opensource #productivity #nocode

3 min read

Michiel

Jan 10

Stop Overengineering Your Python Schedulers — Here's the Cleaner Way

#python #opensource #fastapi #scheduling

3 min read

Jan 10

Stop pasting sensitive code into random websites. I built a privacy-first alternative. 🚀

#showdev #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Davide

Jan 10

I Built a Zuora Workflow Manager with Laravel 12 + Filament (Full Tech Stack Walkthrough)

#laravel #php #filament #opensource

10 min read

Ishan Naik

Jan 10

I Built a Pastebin Where Even I Can't Read Your Data

#security #privacy #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Lokajna

Jan 10

“While Others Wait for VS Code to Load, I’m Already Coding in Ecode.”

#coding #vscode #opensource #privacy

3 min read

Neil

Jan 10

Neiler-64

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jan 10

I Built a Self-Evolving AI Coding System

#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jan 10

GRPM v0.5.0: 75% Gentoo Coverage — Rapid Development Complete

#go #linux #opensource #packagemanager

4 min read

Pradhumna Pancholi

Jan 10

The Tailwind Labs' Problem

#webdev #tailwindcss #opensource #ai

4 min read

Sergiy Tolkachov

Jan 10

11 Years on a Hobby Project: SymOntoClay Dev Journal

#devjournal #opensource #dsl #gamedev

4 min read

Jan 10

Building DogeMoon: A Self-Custodial, Open-Source Ecosystem for Dogecoin 🚀🐕

#blockchain #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Jan 10

Stop Manually Booking Doctors: Build an Autonomous Health Agent with LangGraph & Playwright

#ai #python #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Jan 10

Open-Source Developer Portfolio

#opensource #portfolio #webapp #typescript

1 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 10

Building the World's First Edge-Deployed Cryptographic Audit Trail for Algorithmic Trading

#cloudflarechallenge #security #fintech #opensource

5 min read

Jan 9

I built TuneKit to escape fine-tuning hell (trending #19 on Product Hunt today)

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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