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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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Apr 28

I Stopped Fighting WordPress… So I Rebuilt How I Use It

#webdev #wordpress #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Maksim Iakovlev

Apr 15

Shik — I finally feel joy writing scripts

#showdev #programming #tooling #opensource

7 min read

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Kiên Bùi

Mar 27

MagiC v0.4: Embedded Server Mode + Real Benchmark Numbers

#opensource #go #python #ai

4 min read

Mar 26

Spawning a PTY in Rust: How broll Captures Your Terminal Without You Noticing

#rust #opensource #terminal #cli

6 min read

Joe Davies

Apr 16

Built a CLI that tells me what I'm spending on AI APIs before the invoice does

#showdev #opensource #ai #cli

1 min read

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UPinar

Mar 27

I Built a Security Scanner in C That Grades Any Website A-F — Here's How

#security #opensource #webdev #programming

4 min read

Apr 30

🚀I Built a Multi-Agent AI Debate Arena with LangGraph and Groq🚀

#ai #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

Art

Mar 27

Commit 42: We Replaced Cookies with One Sentence — and Gandhi Showed Up

#opensource #webdev #programming #forge

4 min read

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Kriss

Apr 30

How to add dead man's switch monitoring to any cron job in 2 minutes

#devops #monitoring #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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Yasas Banu

Mar 31

Claude Code's Source Leaked

#ai #claudeai #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Ray

Mar 27

Self-Hosted Stripe Billing Anomaly Detection with FastAPI

#python #fastapi #stripe #opensource

2 min read

Mar 27

Swiss Ephemeris PHP: A 1:1 FFI Wrapper for Astronomical Precision in PHP 8.3+

#php #astronomy #laravel #opensource

3 min read

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Apr 30

How PSScriptBuilder Analyzes PowerShell Dependencies — and What Happens When They Form a Cycle

#powershell #devtools #automation #opensource

3 min read

Mar 27

I built a CLI tool that auto-copies OTPs from Gmail — no more tab switching

#python #cli #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 27

How I Gave My AI Agents a Permanent Memory That Syncs Across Machines

#ai #opensource #programming #productivity

5 min read

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