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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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Eboo Liu

May 12

I Built a Local-First SSH + SFTP Workspace for Developers

#opensource #ssh #electron #devops

4 min read

May 12

I built ZeroAPI – Free AI tools for developers (no signup, no API key)

#ai #programming #opensource #react

1 min read

Alan West

May 12

Migrating Off Google Analytics: Umami vs Plausible vs Fathom

#webdev #analytics #privacy #opensource

5 min read

Rob Ragan

May 12

I Built a Skin System for Claude Code — Here's How It Works

#claude #ai #terminal #opensource

5 min read

May 12

"When `_method` isn't enough: enforcing access control in Python at runtime"

#python #opensource #oop #beginners

4 min read

May 12

CSC: What it and Where is

#architecture #designpatterns #machinelearning #opensource

13 min read

keeper

May 12

Printsight v0.2 — Now Shows Exactly Where Your 3D Print Defects Are

#3dprinting #python #opensource #cv

2 min read

May 12

Milestone 5 Complete: New Relic OTLP Integration for Heka Insights Agent

#python #opensource #telemetry #agents

2 min read

keeper

May 12

3D Print Stringing: Causes, Fixes, and How to Detect It Automatically

#3dprinting #python #opensource #troubleshooting

4 min read

Haruki Kuriwada

May 12

I built a CLI to view your effective Claude Code config across all 4 scopes

#cli #opensource #claude #ai

1 min read

keeper

May 12

I Built a Database That Saves You From Googling 'PLA Temperature' Ever Again

#showdev #3dprinting #python #opensource

3 min read

tracekc

May 12

Why Pure-Software AI Startups Are Structurally Doomed

#ai #startup #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Akanksha Trehun

May 12

Getting Selected — The Night I Couldn't Sleep

#career #devjournal #google #opensource

7 min read

May 12

# Building DevOS: A Free, Open-Source Alternative to Replit (And Why We Need It)

#showdev #opensource #programming #webdev

4 min read

keeper

May 11

I Built an AI That Slices Your 3D Printing Support Waste by 40%

#python #3dprinting #ai #opensource

4 min read

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