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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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Sourav Dey

Apr 14

Facebook Developer Circle 🏆 - Open Source Immersion Challenge 2020

#opensource #engineering #career

2 min read

Apr 13

QRVA: A protocol for cryptographic verification of physical QR codes — design decisions and open questions

#security #cryptography #webauthn #opensource

11 min read

Sergei Peleskov

Apr 14

Stop Vibe Coding. Use Spec-Driven Development Instead.

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Ajax

Apr 27

I built my own release CLI because I wanted full control over my changelogs.

#node #cli #opensource #devops

3 min read

Fatih Can

Apr 27

Spyfcc: Monitor Your API Traffic with Ease

#springboot #java #opensource #architecture

1 min read

jidonglab

Apr 14

Track Every Token You Save With contextzip gain

#ai #productivity #claudecode #opensource

2 min read

Apr 13

Stop Writing Fake Pytest Fixtures and Capture Real API Responses Safely using Snapfix

#webdev #productivity #python #opensource

7 min read

Youssef Najjarine

Apr 13

Building a Zero-Dependency Security SDK in Python

#python #security #opensource #ai

3 min read

Apr 13

A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Outreachy: From Application to Contributions

#beginners #career #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Octavian Cristea

Apr 13

I Placed #2 in a Prediction Market Challenge Using Autoresearch

#python #autoresearch #ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 14

I Built 10 Free PDF Tools That Run Entirely in Your Browser

#javascript #webdev #pdf #opensource

2 min read

Valentin

Apr 13

Cao, take and share easily your toolbox !

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

2 min read

ToolsOfWeb Admin

Apr 14

10+ Free Privacy-First Web Tools for Developers & Creators

#webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Apr 13

I built a CLI tool that explains Java stack traces and suggests fixes

#java #opensource #cli #devtools

1 min read

Apr 27

Classifying 33K Reddit posts on a laptop: anchor first, exclude nothing

#ai #opensource #llm #machinelearning

4 min read

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