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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.

submission guidelines

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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Jul 19

Here's how git-mcp.io shows the typewriter effect on its landing page.

#typewritereffect #opensource #api #gitmcp

2 min read

Calum

Jul 18

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752849

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Cahyanudien Aziz Saputra

Jul 18

Transform Your Phone Into a Wireless Microphone: Introducing FastiMic

#audiostreaming #software #opensource

4 min read

Younes Noorzahi

Jul 22

Routing in Laravel

#laravel #php #opensource

1 min read

Jul 18

JAN AI - We got our first issue from the user for this project!

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

Jul 18

🧠 Kaizen Agent Architecture — How Our AI Agent Improves Other Agents

#discuss #ai #aiops #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18

Free Places to Post Your Early Product — And It Actually Worked

#ai #opensource #marketing #python

2 min read

Jul 18

AI-Powered Quiz Generator - SyllabusQuiz

#ai #opensource #edtech #python

2 min read

Calum

Jul 18

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752828

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jul 22

Claude Code + Any AI Model = 90% Cost Savings (Introducing CCProxy)

#ai #claudecode #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Calum

Jul 18

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752806

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Jul 18

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

vijaysheru

Jul 18

How I’m Solving the Dark Side of Vibe Coding — Building DevPilot Core as a Solo Engineer

#ai #devtools #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Noorsimar Singh

Jul 17

Building a Production-Ready Apple Store Reviews Scraper with Python & Scrapy

#webscraping #python #opensource #api

7 min read

Jul 17

Durable Object for handling repository view counts in git-mcp codebase.

#durableobject #gitmcp #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Sigzen Technologies

Jul 17

Why Customizable ERP Is the Future of Enterprise Software

#erp #enterprisesoftware #python #opensource

4 min read

kcsujeet

Jul 21

Introducing ilamy Calendar: A Modern React Calendar Built for Developers

#react #opensource #calendar #bunjs

4 min read

hopsayer

Jul 17

mpv vs VLC: Making mpv Comfortable to Use

#linux #opensource #tutorial #performance

2 min read

Calum

Jul 17

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752741

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Makoto I.

Jul 21

Reflecting on 7+ Years of Crafting CLI Tools in Rust

#rust #opensource #cli #tooling

9 min read

Calum

Jul 17

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752720

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

ByteKnight

Jul 16

Snowflake

#privacy #webrtc #security #opensource

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 16

How a 12% Tax Rule Becomes Code: Grammar, Law, and Machine Execution

#news #ai #react #opensource

4 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Jul 17

The untold story behind the popular open-source PDF library—react-pdf

#opensource #react #pdf #github

3 min read

Judy

Jul 17

Simulating Multiple-Layer Loop to Solve Logical Problems

#programming #devops #opensource #esproc

6 min read

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