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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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Lyra

Apr 18

Scrub Your Btrfs Before It Scrubs You: Practical `btrfs scrub` + systemd timer

#linux #opensource #storage #devops

6 min read

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James

Apr 22

How I Built a Privacy-First PDF Tool Using pdf-lib and the Canvas API

#javascript #privacy #webdev #opensource

5 min read

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Apr 18

What Is Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki — And How Can You Extend It?

#ai #llm #opensource #rag

2 min read

naz

Apr 18

Hey, I made a tool that encrypts files using your typing rhythm!!!!

#opensource #cybersecurity

1 min read

Pico

Apr 18

How Commit Scores npm Packages: The Methodology Behind getcommit.dev/audit

#javascript #npm #security #opensource

9 min read

propfirmdealfinder

Apr 18

Building an MCP Server for Prop Trading: How I Gave Claude + ChatGPT Live Access to 20+ Prop Firm Deals

#ai #mcp #typescript #opensource

2 min read

MoLines Designs

Apr 22

I built a visual TUI for Homebrew with React and Ink

#opensource #terminal #react #typescript

2 min read

Mippedia

Apr 18

Building a Modern Open Knowledge Ecosystem: Introducing Mippedia

#opensource #ensiklopedia #mippedia

1 min read

Salvatore Attaguile

Apr 18

DCGRA: Distributed Coherence-Governed Reasoning Architecture

#ai #machinelearning #architecture #opensource

3 min read

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Apr 18

How to manage multiple websites from one Astro monorepo

#astro #webdev #opensource #typescript

7 min read

Nguyễn Công Thuận Huy

Apr 18

I Built a Tool to Generate Developer Portfolios Automatically

#webdev #opensource #productivity #python

1 min read

Apr 18

ClientIQ

#showdev #opensource #productivity #sideprojects

7 min read

abrahamcasanova

Apr 22

Building Self-Improving AI Agents with React Three Fiber + pgvector

#ai #react #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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Alan West

Apr 17

How to Run a 35B Parameter Model on Your Laptop Without Melting It

#ai #llm #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Param Shah

Apr 18

We built traceAI, an open-source tool for tracing LLM calls in production

#ai #llm #opensource #devtool

1 min read

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