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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.

submission guidelines

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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Ali Raza

Mar 26

I built a file transfer tool that can’t spy on you even if it wanted to

#opensource #go #webdev

3 min read

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Liz Acosta for Vonage Developers

Mar 25

The Vonage Dev Discussion: Open Source

#discuss #opensource #womenintech

1 min read

Tsunamayo

Mar 26

I built a self-hosted AI chat app that connects 7 providers in one UI

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

3 min read

Mar 26

I got tired of juggling terminal windows for every AI agent, so I built an all-in-one IDE

#productivity #tooling #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26

Spawning a PTY in Rust: How broll Captures Your Terminal Without You Noticing

#rust #opensource #terminal #cli

6 min read

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Mar 26

GoFr — The Go Framework That Finally Made Backend Development Click for Me

#backend #go #microservices #opensource

3 min read

Aditya Rai

Mar 26

From a Small Village to Building My Own Programming Language: The Journey of a 14-Year-Old Coder

#python #programming #iot #opensource

2 min read

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orenlab

Mar 26

I built a baseline-aware Python code health tool for CI and AI-assisted coding

#python #opensource #devops #ai

6 min read

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Mar 26

I scraped 25 AI/tech communities for 6 months. Here's what the data actually says.

#discuss #opensource #ai #python

8 min read

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Heiner

Mar 26

OBS Can't See Your Scenes. I Fixed That.

#obs #lua #automation #opensource

2 min read

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Pau Dang

Mar 26

How I Built a Node.js Generator with 1,680+ Combinations, Clean Architecture or MVC (Kafka)

#webdev #microservices #node #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26

Academics Just Formalized "Reverse CAPTCHAs" — Here's a Working Open-Source Implementation

#ai #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

GPU-Bridge

Mar 26

We Built a LlamaIndex Integration. They Closed the PR. The Code Still Works.

#ai #opensource #agents #infrastructure

2 min read

Awa Destiny Aghangu

Mar 26

Getting Started with Docling: PDF to Structured Data

#ai #opensource #python #tutorial

3 min read

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Hidden Developer

Mar 26

AI Tamagotchi: Why I Built an AI That Starts Blank and Grows With You

#showdev #ai #opensource #docker

4 min read

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