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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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Mahendra S

May 5

How I built a tool that checks if a GitHub issue already has a PR — and why that's the feature nobody built

#opensource #github #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Jacob

May 5

How I Built a 10KB Embeddable Chat Widget on Cloudflare Workers

#cloudflare #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Oresztesz Margaritisz

Apr 30

Advancing Your Own AWS AI Architect with DrawIO Skills and Living Documentation

#ai #architecture #aws #opensource

10 min read

kiwi_tech

May 1

Kiwi-chan's Slow & Steady Climb (and a LOT of Dirt) 🥝

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Apr 30

Stop re-explaining your project to AI

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Apr 30

LLM Aggregator: aggregate RSS feeds and summarise them with LLMs

#showdev #ai #opensource #go

2 min read

Md Umair

May 1

A Better Way to Handle Docker Secrets — No Cloud, No .env, No Leaks

#devops #docker #security #opensource

3 min read

Apr 30

Why your Bluetooth MIDI keyboard silently drops notes on Windows

#dotnet #midi #opensource #microsoft

7 min read

Regnard Raquedan

May 4

Token Consumption Anxiety and the Open Source App I Built to Solve It

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Apr 30

Building a Lossless Multi-Provider Health Layer in Flutter (Strava, HealthKit, Health Connect, Oura)

#flutter #dart #opensource #healthtech

9 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 30

Kiwi-chan's Persistent Planking Problem & The Endless Search for a Table! 🥝🔨

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Web Agent Bridge

Apr 30

We Built a DNS-Based Discovery Protocol for AI Agents — Here's How It Works

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

WonderLab

Apr 30

One Open Source Project a Day (No.52): Tank-OS - A Red Hat Engineer Baked an AI Agent Into a Bootable Linux Image Over a Weekend

#opensource #openclaw #linux #podman

11 min read

BN

May 1

EGA: Runtime Enforcement for LLM Outputs (v1.0.0)

#llm #rag #mlops #opensource

1 min read

Apr 30

I Thought This Was a Payment Problem. I Was Wrong.

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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