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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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Mar 5

I built an npm package that auto-generates a REST API from your Prisma schema

#node #typescript #prisma #opensource

3 min read

Lucas

Mar 4

We built post-quantum encrypted email that works with Gmail. Here's how.

#security #privacy #opensource #webdev

2 min read

vinz

Mar 4

Stop Tab-Switching for AI: I Built a Lightweight Rust Popup to Rephrase and Reply Instantly 🦀

#rust #tauri #ai #opensource

2 min read

Marco Steinhaeuser

Mar 4

Why I'm supporting the petition to recognize open-source work as volunteering in Germany

#germany #nonprofit #opensource #openpetition

5 min read

Mar 4

We Open-Sourced Our App. Here's Everything We Had to Scrub from Git History First.

#git #opensource #vercel #security

4 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 4

Your Writing Is Probably Already in an AI Training Dataset. Here'\''s How to Opt Out.

#ai #privacy #python #opensource

3 min read

Stephane

Mar 5

NotesMe v1.1 – self-hosted encrypted notes, now with a live demo

#showdev #opensource #privacy #productivity

1 min read

Danni Friedland

Mar 4

I Built an AI Coding Agent That Lives in Your Browser

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Mar 4

ayat saadati — Complete Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Gama

Mar 5

I built an AI Agent that builds n8n workflows

#ai #opensource #automation #agents

1 min read

Mar 4

React Compiler and Beyond: Capability Boundaries of Compiler-Driven UI Frameworks

#webdev #opensource #react

6 min read

Lycoris52

Mar 4

Rust vs Python vs Node.js Speed Comparison on ZIP Image Loading Benchmark

#rust #python #node #opensource

5 min read

YMori

Mar 5

Park Factors, OAA, and Stuff+ in One Line of Python (savant-extras v0.3.2–v0.4.1)

#python #baseball #opensource #pypi

3 min read

Siddhartha Mishra

Mar 5

Introducing SnapbitTools

#webdev #devtools #opensource #privacy

5 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Mar 4

Infrastructure-as-Code Was Built for Humans. AI Agents Need Infrastructure-as-Tools.

#ai #infrastructure #mcp #opensource

5 min read

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