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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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Cover image for I built a CLI tool so I never have to write FFmpeg commands again

Mar 25

I built a CLI tool so I never have to write FFmpeg commands again

#webdev #ffmpeg #opensource #node

3 min read

Cover image for How We Use AWS CDK to Deploy OpenClaw for Enterprise Teams — API Key Management Without the Chaos

C.K.Sun

Mar 22

How We Use AWS CDK to Deploy OpenClaw for Enterprise Teams — API Key Management Without the Chaos

#opensource #openclaw #aws #cdk

5 min read

Cover image for I just wanted Claude Code on my phone. 10 days and 2,000 downloads later, here's the story.

Chad

Feb 18

I just wanted Claude Code on my phone. 10 days and 2,000 downloads later, here's the story.

#claudecode #opensource #productivity #webdev

7 min read

Jin Gong

Mar 14

I Built a Desktop App with Go + Wails3 in 4 Hours

#vue #go #opensource #wails3

3 min read

Cover image for json-key-parser vs jsonpath-ng: Simplicity Wins for Messy JSON, Power for Complex Queries

Mar 4

json-key-parser vs jsonpath-ng: Simplicity Wins for Messy JSON, Power for Complex Queries

#python #opensource #pypi #json

3 min read

Cover image for I built a web scraper in Rust that bypasses Cloudflare without a browser

Massi

Mar 24

I built a web scraper in Rust that bypasses Cloudflare without a browser

#rust #ai #opensource #webscraping

3 min read

Cover image for Automating entire workflows with ralph-starter

Feb 19

Automating entire workflows with ralph-starter

#ralphwiggum #ai #automation #opensource

8 min read

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Luciano Federico Pereira

Feb 19

In Praise of “Hobbyist Languages”: The Unsung Heroes of Software Development

#opensource #community #motivation #career

4 min read

Mar 4

Chat with your own docs using local LLMs — no cloud, no API keys

#python #opensource #ai #openclaw

3 min read

Akshay Kolhapure

Feb 19

Stop reading stack traces — this tool explains them

#javascript #node #opensource #errorlogs

1 min read

Feb 20

Mastering Workflow Automation: A Deep Dive into Open-Source Alternatives

#automation #devops #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Cover image for Local LLM Code Completions Are Slow. Here's Why and How to Fix It.

Alan West

Mar 25

Local LLM Code Completions Are Slow. Here's Why and How to Fix It.

#llm #opensource #codecompletion #localai

5 min read

Ajit Singh

Mar 22

I Built 26 AI Career Tools for Claude Code — Here's What I Learned

#career #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I Built a Typing Game to Help People Discover Open Source

Setasena Randata

Feb 18

I Built a Typing Game to Help People Discover Open Source

#opensource #webdev #gamedev #javascript

2 min read

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Feb 18

Building a Universal Memory Layer for AI Agents: Architecture Patterns for Scalable State Management

#ai #programming #architecture #opensource

12 min read

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