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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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TheCodeAlchemist

Mar 7

Introducing Archify: From Architecture Idea to Spring Boot Code

#productivity #java #opensource #springboot

3 min read

Mar 7

I built a visual README builder so you never have to write raw markdown again

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Sourav

Mar 7

I built 90+ free browser tools at beginthings.com -- here is the tech behind it

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 21

My journey with Owasp and Open Source

#programming #opensource

2 min read

노력이부족

Mar 7

Building a Browser-Based NCM File Converter (NetEase Cloud Music to FLAC/MP3)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

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Mar 7

A Dependency Injection tool for Go developers who hate frameworks

#go #architecture #backend #opensource

7 min read

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AJ

Mar 7

How We Built Ekehi: Engineering a Women's Business Intelligence Platform in One Sprint

#webdev #css #opensource #frontend

11 min read

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Siddharth Singh

Mar 20

What is Agentic Incident Management? The End of 3 AM War Rooms

#devops #sre #opensource #ai

4 min read

Ben Lamm

Mar 20

Your AI Agent Has a Rejection Log. Here's Why It Matters.

#ai #opensource #agents #promptengineering

2 min read

Mar 8

VoxPilot v0.4.1: Inline Mode — Insert Transcripts at Your Cursor

#vscode #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 6

My AI Agent Leaked an API Key, Burned $47, and Looped 200 Times — So I Built It a Bodyguard

#rust #ai #security #opensource

3 min read

Marko

Mar 11

Spring CRUD Generator v1.5.0: Better Spec Consistency, CI Integration Tests, and AI-Friendly Spec Authoring

#java #springboot #githubcopilot #opensource

2 min read

Draginox

Mar 11

Embed Minecraft Server Status Badges on Any Website (HTML, Markdown, BBCode)

#webdev #html #gamedev #opensource

5 min read

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GEM² Inc.

Mar 30

Human in the loop doesn't scale. Human at the edge does.

#ai #opensource #productivity #testing

9 min read

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Dhavalkurkutiya

Mar 7

Stop manually setting up tRPC in Next.js — use this CLI instead

#nextjs #trpc #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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