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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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Jan 21

Hova: a small DSL for describing worlds (early projects)

#programming #dsl #opensource #gamedev

2 min read

Feb 24

The Timeless Agent: A Mission Statement

#ai #opensource #programming #productivity

15 min read

Cover image for Hova: a small DSL for describing worlds (early projects)

Jan 21

Hova: a small DSL for describing worlds (early projects)

#programming #dsl #opensource #gamedev

2 min read

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Jan 21

Time-Decoupled Law (TDSM)

#architecture #security #opensource

5 min read

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Feb 14

Implement ollvm with llvm pass

#github #opensource #security #tooling

4 min read

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Feb 24

Building a Free Markdown to PDF Converter (No Sign-ups, 100% Browser-Based)

#opensource #javascript #react

3 min read

Jan 22

🕸️ I Just Deleted My Scraper Boilerplate: Meet the "One-Liner" Crawler

#python #opensource #productivity #dataengineering

3 min read

Feb 24

Your AI Agents Have 5 Months to Comply With the EU AI Act — Here's What You're Missing

#ai #python #security #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for Growing as a developer through open source contribution

Feb 24

Growing as a developer through open source contribution

#opensource #go #learning #devops

2 min read

Feb 24

What's Next for SendRec

#opensource #go #react #webdev

4 min read

Feb 24

I gave Claude Code persistent memory and a common sense engine. Here's how.

#ai #opensource #python #claudecode

7 min read

Aurora

Feb 24

I Built a Web3 Bounty Aggregator on Apify (and What I Learned About the Agent Economy)

#webdev #web3 #ai #opensource

2 min read

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Feb 24

Your README Is Your Book Cover. Here's the Checklist I Use for 50+ Projects

#github #opensource #documentation #productivity

4 min read

Feb 22

I Built a Tiny MCP That Understands Your Code and Saves 70% Tokens

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Feb 18

Every AI Agent Framework Trusts the Agent. That's the Problem.

#ai #security #distributedsystems #opensource

5 min read

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