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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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Prasanth

Jan 2

Building Parallax: A Trust & Transparency Utility for Ubuntu Touch

#opensource #privacy #ubuntu #mobile

3 min read

Mate Technologies

Jan 2

FileMate Explorer Pro: A Modern Python File Explorer with Tkinter

#python #tkinter #desktopapps #opensource

6 min read

Jan 2

Day 4: What I Learned Letting AI Run My Website Autonomously

#ai #webdev #automation #opensource

3 min read

Alexander Alten

Jan 2

S3-Native Kafka Alternatives: What's Actually Different

#kafka #dataengineering #opensource #devops

3 min read

deltax

Jan 2

If AI Doesn’t Improve Anything, It Should Stop Talking

#ai #governance #safety #opensource

1 min read

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shiey

Jan 2

Building a Real-Time Collaborative Notepad with Socket.IO and MongoDB

#javascript #node #socketio #opensource

3 min read

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Scriptor

Jan 2

I built wordle for desktop but using my own GUI library!

#showdev #opensource #testing #development

2 min read

Jan 2

How I Built a Zero-Config CLI That Generates READMEs in 60 Seconds

#opensource #python #productivity #cli

2 min read

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Jan 2

🚀 Just shipped Nooxy - turn your Notion workspace into a personal website in 5 mins for free

#opensource #notion #webdev #javascript

7 min read

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Jan 2

Docker Network Commands

#devops #docker #opensource #development

8 min read

CJ

Jan 2

🚀 Introducing Production Readiness — A Practical Guide to Shipping Software That Survives Reality

#devops #opensource #systemdesign

2 min read

Jan 2

Building a Chrome Extension to Make LeetCode Prep More Practical

#webdev #opensource #sideprojects #javascript

1 min read

Javad

Jan 2

Compiler Design 101: Falcon - A Minimal Production‑Oriented Language and Compiler

#discuss #programming #tutorial #opensource

8 min read

Oleksandr Viktor

Jan 2

🚀 Building the Best SQL-Backed Job Queue with WJb and UkrGuru.Sql in .NET

#dotnet #csharp #sqlserver #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Building Tamper-Proof Audit Trails for Algorithmic Trading with VCP v1.1

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 2

Building Tamper-Proof Audit Trails for Algorithmic Trading with VCP v1.1

#python #fintech #opensource

8 min read

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Meet Orion-Belt, Go ZeroTrust Bastion

#opensource #security #devops #go

3 min read

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gezilinll

Jan 2

Proteus: The AI-native editor for multimodal creation

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

Disc Time Stamps

Jan 2

I built a Discord Timestamp Generator with 100% Page Speed Scores (Open Source)

#ai #discord #opensource #react

2 min read

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Jan 2

Stop Configuring, Start Coding: The Ultimate Next.js 16 PWA Boilerplate 🚀....... Simple WebApp - Heavstal Tech™

#nextjs #pwa #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 1

VCP v1.1 Implementation Guide Released: Building Cryptographic Audit Trails for Trading Systems

#ai #fintech #security #opensource

4 min read

Jan 2

We built a Windows app that blocks trackers and encrypts your traffic automatically

#security #privacy #rust #opensource

1 min read

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Jan 2

🚀 Nike Website Clone | React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS

#react #typescript #tailwindcss #opensource

1 min read

hmza

Jan 1

LanManVan: How to Create Your Own Modules

#cybersecurity #go #metasploit #opensource

3 min read

Sherif

Jan 1

We built LAN Orangutan, a lightweight network scanner

#showdev #opensource #tooling #networking

1 min read

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Jan 2

🚀 VanillaJS Sushi Animated Website | Built with Vite & JavaScript

#javascript #design #opensource #webdev

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