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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 got tired of guessing semver bumps in PRs, so I built a tool

Apr 11

I got tired of guessing semver bumps in PRs, so I built a tool

#typescript #opensource #npm #node

2 min read

Mar 28

Switch AI Coding Assistants Without Losing Context

#ai #devtools #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for I kept forgetting to bump my VERSION file – so I built a tool to fix that

Mar 28

I kept forgetting to bump my VERSION file – so I built a tool to fix that

#developer #dotnet #opensource

2 min read

Chaitany

Mar 28

PolarQuant: Quantizing KV Caches with Polar Transformation

#ai #programming #opensource #tutorial

11 min read

Mar 28

The $12,000 Tinybox Is Proof That the Cloud AI Cartel's Days Are Numbered

#ai #selfhosted #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for 🚀 Stop Building OTP Systems from Scratch — I Built a Complete Redis-Based Verification Engine for Node.js

Mar 28

🚀 Stop Building OTP Systems from Scratch — I Built a Complete Redis-Based Verification Engine for Node.js

#javascript #opensource #redis #node

3 min read

Cover image for I built an IAM-style firewall for AI agents after Claude read my .env

Mar 28

I built an IAM-style firewall for AI agents after Claude read my .env

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

Ray

Mar 28

How to catch Stripe billing bugs before they cost you money

#python #fastapi #stripe #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Wrapping Up Ekehi: The Code, The Team, and What I Am Taking With Me

Mar 28

Wrapping Up Ekehi: The Code, The Team, and What I Am Taking With Me

#opensource #iwd

7 min read

Mar 29

7 Indie-Built Mac Apps That Outperform Big-Company Software in 2026

#productivity #tooling #opensource #startup

4 min read

Mar 29

I Got All Three Processors Talking to Each Other on My AMD Laptop

#amd #machinelearning #linux #opensource

3 min read

ura-tools

Mar 28

I built a changelog generator that works on any repo — no conventional commits needed

#cli #devtools #ai #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I Got Tired of Switching Between curl and Postman — So I Built My Own CLI

Rushikesh Pawar

Mar 28

I Got Tired of Switching Between curl and Postman — So I Built My Own CLI

#webdev #cli #opensource #programming

3 min read

Mar 28

Why Your AI Agents Need a Chief of Staff (Not More Prompts)

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Shubham Bhamare

May 1

Best places to launch your SaaS product 🚀

#opensource #github #buildinpublic #startup

1 min read

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