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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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Vasyl

May 7

Open-source licenses 101: which one to actually pick

#opensource #beginners #programming #tutorial

5 min read

May 3

I built a CLI that tells you where you left off in your git repo

#git #rust #opensource #ai

1 min read

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Yein Sung

May 3

I Built a Spam-Comment Review Bot After Almost Moving a GitHub Issue Conversation to Telegram

#maintainers #opensource #github #security

4 min read

Vilius

May 7

7 Protocols for Agent Infrastructure

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

4 min read

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Iván Naranjo Ortega

May 3

I build a simple file archiver in C, SAR

#linux #c #tooling #opensource

1 min read

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May 7

How I built a terminal AI agent that never hits rate limits (open source, Python)

#ai #python #opensource #terminal

2 min read

smegg99

May 7

I built permanent QR codes for GitHub repositories because hardware

#github #opensource #webdev #hardware

3 min read

May 3

I built a modem that talks through sound. Yes, literally sound.

#networking #iot #python #opensource

3 min read

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May 3

Modernizing Bluetooth Printing in React Native 🚀

#reactnative #android #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Reymart A. Calicdan

May 3

Streaming AI Responses in PHP with Server-Sent Events

#php #ai #webdev #opensource

6 min read

May 3

I Built a Unified AI Workspace Where Every Tool Shares Context — Meet Kit 🏵️

#devtools #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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TobiasBond

May 3

How I Automated the Entire Web3 Frontend Stack Migration in One Command

#web3 #ethereum #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Snow

May 3

hello dev.to, be good to me.

#javascript #mobile #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Lyra

May 3

Stop Guessing Whether Debian Package Files Changed: Practical `debsums` for Integrity Checks

#linux #security #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Matthew

May 3

Building Phonton: a local-first AI coding CLI that verifies diffs before review

#ai #cli #opensource #rust

1 min read

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