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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 From Cluster UI to Operational Plane: Lessons from the Kubernetes Dashboard Deprecation

Jan 24

From Cluster UI to Operational Plane: Lessons from the Kubernetes Dashboard Deprecation

#kubernetes #devops #devtron #opensource

4 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 25

Building Tamper-Proof Media Apps: C2PA vs CPP Deep Dive for Developers

#security #cryptography #ios #opensource

12 min read

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Polliog

Jan 23

Self-Hosted Observability: $20/month vs $800/month

#opensource #devops #security #productivity

4 min read

Cover image for QuantDinger: Build, Backtest, and Trade with AI – An Open-Source, Local-First Quant Platform in Python

Jan 24

QuantDinger: Build, Backtest, and Trade with AI – An Open-Source, Local-First Quant Platform in Python

#ai #opensource #devops #database

1 min read

Cover image for I Built a TUI to Replace `git commit` (and it's written in Go)

Jan 24

I Built a TUI to Replace `git commit` (and it's written in Go)

#go #git #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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jst_kenzo

Jan 25

i accidentally built AGI for $30/month and nobody's ready for this conversation

#ai #opensource #productivity #clawdbot

6 min read

Alain Prasquier

Jan 24

I created OAT to help maintaining consistency of coding-agent rule across projects , orgs, and personal preferences

#ai #opensource #python

1 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 6

Welcome to The Foundation: Preserving Developer Knowledge in Public

#discuss #community #opensource #ai

2 min read

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Jan 24

The Offline-First Struggle: How I Built a Robust Sync Engine for Flutter (SynapseLink)

#flutter #dart #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Jan 24

Why I stopped pasting API keys into random online converters (so I built a local one)

#typescript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Danial Jumagaliyev

Jan 25

Building in Public while Job Hunting: My January Dev Update

#discuss #career #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Jan 25

I Was Mid-Setup When I Built the Skill That Finished Setting It Up

#ai #mobile #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

Arkforge

Feb 7

Why I Built an Uptime Monitor as a Solo Dev

#monitoring #devops #opensource #startup

5 min read

Jan 24

Why I Built a Free URL Shortener And Gave Everything Away

#showdev #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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Cyber

Jan 28

My Top 5 Self-Hosted Tools Running on My Home Server (via Docker)

#docker #opensource #devops

4 min read

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