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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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Joni Sar

May 7

Managed Iceberg Data Lakes: A Guide

#data #database #dataengineering #opensource

14 min read

May 8

I built 80+ free browser-based tools — here's why "zero uploads" changes everything

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

May 7

We got tired of broken chromedriver and built our own — with SOCKS5, multiprocessing, and captcha support

#programming #python #selenium #opensource

2 min read

oxcl

May 7

How I Packaged a .deb File for NixOS with Flakes

#showdev #linux #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

maruakshay

May 7

I Built a Claude Code-Level Coding Assistant That Runs Entirely on Your Machine

#ai #opensource #cli

3 min read

May 8

I built ARIA (Autonomous Reasoning intelligent agent) for hard code developers – an open-source CLI coding agent with AST validation and RAG web search

#ai #python #opensource #claude

1 min read

May 7

The Story Behind GoWatcher: A Tale of F5 Fatigue and Code Flow

#opensource #go #developer

3 min read

Benjamin Touchard

May 7

I shipped a 20-feature DevOps tool solo in 60 days using Claude Code — the unfiltered breakdown

#ai #devops #opensource #claude

12 min read

May 7

Three Rules for Designing a Go SDK Other People Will Actually Use

#api #design #go #opensource

6 min read

May 8

Stop Writing Endpoints. Start Defining Systems.

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

3 min read

אחיה כהן

May 7

An AI agent overwrote two of my browser tabs. The fix took three releases.

#ai #opensource #debugging #javascript

6 min read

May 7

ayat saadati — Complete Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Kouamé Maïzan Alain Serge Kossonou

May 7

Capturer la décision à l'instant du commit, ou la perdre à jamais

#showdev #documentation #git #opensource

8 min read

anassetti20-prog

May 7

Pay-Per-Use MCP Server with Micropayments

#api #webdev #opensource #mcp

1 min read

Kouamé Maïzan Alain Serge Kossonou

May 7

Capture the decision at commit-time, or lose it forever

#showdev #documentation #opensource #git

7 min read

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