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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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Apr 29

25+ UI blocks you can use in production

#webdev #opensource #shadcn #tailwindcss

1 min read

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Алексей Замараев

Apr 28

I built a game similarity engine with Django and PostgreSQL

#python #django #gamedev #opensource

1 min read

Philipp Schweizer

Apr 28

[Beta Testers Wanted] Help me launch this Raspberry Pi IP Scanner for Android

#raspberrypi #android #opensource #testing

2 min read

Apr 28

Pylon: Self-Host Your Own AI Agent Pipeline That Fixes Sentry Errors via

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

3 min read

GrimLabs

Apr 28

Why We Open-Sourced Our Audit Logging Instead of Using Splunk

#opensource #auditlogging #splunk #saas

5 min read

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Apr 28

Agent Skills: Why They Matter More Than You Think

#ai #opensource #agentskills #programming

6 min read

Zeke

Apr 28

Chaintip freshness cert: signed identity scores that age with the chain

#bitcoin #lightning #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Mammoth Capital

Apr 28

I built a free BTC trading terminal with React/Vite, Coinbase WebSocket, and a multi-tier build system

#javascript #opensource

2 min read

Apr 28

ayat saadati — Complete Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #webdev

6 min read

depmedicdev-byte

Apr 28

ci-doctor vs actionlint: when to use which

#githubactions #devops #ci #opensource

2 min read

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Apr 28

Is Telegram Really Anonymous? Let’s Be Honest.

#anonymous #opensource #cybersecurity #privacy

4 min read

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Apr 28

The Jupyter notebook bug that only crashes for other people

#python #jupyter #datascience #opensource

3 min read

kkyian

Apr 28

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Akshay

Apr 28

I built a Modern Android Toast Library that works properly on Android 11+ (with icons, colors & Version Catalog support)

#android #java #mobiledev #opensource

2 min read

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Leonard O Sullivan

Apr 28

nat-zero: scale-to-zero NAT instances for AWS

#aws #terraform #devops #opensource

5 min read

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