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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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Favoured Anuanatata

Jan 10

Adding a Missing Warning Note

#help #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Augusto Vivaldelli

Jan 10

Brass TS — Building an Effect Runtime in TypeScript (Part 4)

#architecture #opensource #tutorial #typescript

3 min read

Jan 14

More adventures in building a first flow with Kestra.io

#orchestration #automation #opensource #gettingstarted

7 min read

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Staks

Jan 10

Why I Built Staks: Open-Source Email Infrastructure for Developers

#email #opensource #startup #developers

2 min read

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Ishan Naik

Jan 10

I Built a Pastebin Where Even I Can't Read Your Data

#security #privacy #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mate Technologies

Jan 11

WatermarkX v1.0 – A Lightweight Offline Image Watermarking Tool Built with Python

#python #desktopapp #imageprocessing #opensource

2 min read

Neil

Jan 10

Neiler-64

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jan 10

I Built a Self-Evolving AI Coding System

#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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QBitFlow

Feb 2

Why Spending Caps Beat Escrow: A Security Analysis of Crypto Payment Models

#web3 #programming #opensource #blockchain

12 min read

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Jan 10

GRPM v0.5.0: 75% Gentoo Coverage — Rapid Development Complete

#go #linux #opensource #packagemanager

4 min read

Pradhumna Pancholi

Jan 10

The Tailwind Labs' Problem

#webdev #tailwindcss #opensource #ai

4 min read

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Jan 10

Open-Source Developer Portfolio

#opensource #portfolio #webapp #typescript

1 min read

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Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Jan 14

Puck 0.21: AI beta, rich text editing & new plugin rail

#opensource #ai #react #webdev

14 min read

Jan 10

Stop Manually Booking Doctors: Build an Autonomous Health Agent with LangGraph & Playwright

#ai #python #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

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VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 10

Building the World's First Edge-Deployed Cryptographic Audit Trail for Algorithmic Trading

#cloudflarechallenge #security #fintech #opensource

5 min read

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