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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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Cover image for The Curated, Automated Open Source Portfolio: How It’s Going

Tracks "invisible" work like co-authored PRs

Ayu Adiati

Apr 1

The Curated, Automated Open Source Portfolio: How It’s Going

#opensource #ai #vibecoding

5 min read

Cover image for 3 Takeaways from All Things AI: 80/20 Rule, Non-Deterministic Humans, and Why We're Still Early

Ryan Swift

Apr 1

3 Takeaways from All Things AI: 80/20 Rule, Non-Deterministic Humans, and Why We're Still Early

#discuss #ai #mlh #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for I built a machine-readable UK Chart of Accounts for Python (because one didn't exist)

billkhiz

Apr 1

I built a machine-readable UK Chart of Accounts for Python (because one didn't exist)

#python #accounting #opensource #fintech

3 min read

Apr 1

A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast + Tor)

#anonymous #opensource #security #typescript

1 min read

Apr 1

Authorizer v2 Is Here: Self-Hosted Auth, Rebuilt From the Ground Up

#webdev #ai #opensource #authentication

6 min read

Cover image for Weekly Updates Add JS variables to event flow

NocoBase

Apr 2

Weekly Updates Add JS variables to event flow

#news #ai #nocode #opensource

6 min read

El Housseine Jaafari

Apr 1

Building an Engineering & Security News Aggregator (10 Sources, No APIs)

#javascript #opensource #webdev #security

2 min read

Cover image for QuillSort — A data sorter

Apr 1

QuillSort — A data sorter

#python #datascience #performance #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2

I Built an AI Assistant for the Most Legendary Car in the Balkans

#devchallenge #ai #humor #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I voice-code from my phone while walking my dog

Apr 2

I voice-code from my phone while walking my dog

#ai #telegram #opensource #webdev

14 min read

Cover image for Drizby: An Open Source BI Platform Built on a Semantic Layer (and why I built it)

Clifton Cunningham

Apr 2

Drizby: An Open Source BI Platform Built on a Semantic Layer (and why I built it)

#analytics #opensource #typescript #ai

8 min read

Cover image for I Was Tired of Paying $0.40/Secret/Month, So I spent a month building a CLI tool to manage it.

Apr 2

I Was Tired of Paying $0.40/Secret/Month, So I spent a month building a CLI tool to manage it.

#webdev #aws #security #opensource

3 min read

willamhou

Apr 2

How I Built Cryptographic Signing for Every AI Agent Tool Call

#ai #security #opensource #rust

5 min read

Brenn Hill

Apr 2

How a sandwich defeats North Korea's hackers (and the US couldn't for 70 years)

#security #npm #opensource #ai

5 min read

Apr 2

I open-sourced alternative to ReplyGuy — AI replies on Reddit, Twitter/X & HN for $50/month

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

3 min read

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