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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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DEV Weekend Challenge: Community

Mei Park

Feb 28

Stop Downloading Apps for Your Kids. Build Them Instead.

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #ai #opensource

4 min read

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vinz

Mar 1

How I built an AI-powered Git context menu for Windows using Tauri and Rust

#rust #tauri #react #opensource

4 min read

Mar 1

The Super-Tree: How One Merkle Tree Proves Another

#rust #cryptography #security #opensource

9 min read

Feb 28

I Built a Voice-to-Code VS Code Extension That Runs Entirely On-Device

#vscode #ai #opensource #a11y

2 min read

Null Saint

Feb 28

MEA – Modbus Exposure Analyzer: Passive ICS/OT Security Analysis by Rugero Tesla (404saint)

#cybersecurity #security #opensource

1 min read

yendy

Mar 1

Auric Trade Collective!

#socialist #opensource #startup

2 min read

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Feb 28

Stop Paying for Overpriced PDM: A 100% Free, Open-Source Drawing Management System

#showdev #opensource #productivity #tooling

2 min read

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Mar 1

The New SaaS Playbook: What Building a 29-Module ERP Taught Me About AI-Native Software

#ai #saas #architecture #opensource

13 min read

Wes

Mar 1

Your Benchmarks Are Lying to You (And This 148-Star Crate Knows Why)

#opensource #rust #performance #benchmarking

5 min read

WonderLab

Mar 1

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 2): Remotion - Create Videos Programmatically with React

#opensource #ai

7 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Mar 1

Soulprint v0.6.0: We Removed libp2p and the Network Got Better

#ai #blockchain #opensource #node

1 min read

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Benoit COUETIL 💫 for Zenika

Feb 28

📝 Dev.to Writers Community: One Command to Maintain Them All

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #opensource #productivity

10 min read

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christian daniel

Feb 28

Run Your Own Local AI Chat with OpenWebUI and llama.cpp - Windows

#ai #tutorial #opensource #llm

5 min read

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Cesar Menegatti

Mar 1

Stop Writing Date Helpers in Go: Introducing go-date-fns

#go #opensource #programming #development

3 min read

bada

Mar 1

I Built a macOS App to Stop Links From Opening in the Wrong Chrome Profile

#showdev #productivity #opensource #automation

2 min read

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