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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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Francisco Júnior

Feb 17

Adeus CleanMyMac: Como Otimizar seu macOS de Graça com um Script de Elite (Open Source)

#macos #bash #performance #opensource

7 min read

Tyson Cung

Feb 19

How I Built a Type-Safe Excel Library with Zod

#typescript #zod #opensource

4 min read

Feb 17

NoamVC v0.3 — We deleted 3,500 lines and the app got better

#webrtc #rust #tauri #opensource

4 min read

Feb 16

Why I Rewrote My Email Editor from Scratch: From Blocks to Atoms Rewrite

#opensource #vue #webdev #email

3 min read

Feb 17

cognitive-debt: Measure Code Readability Before It Becomes a Problem

#webdev #opensource #codequality #devtool

5 min read

Feb 18

I built an open-source Vercel alternative in Rust — here's what I learned

#webdev #devops #opensource #rust

8 min read

Feb 17

What Is Wiggum CLI? The Autonomous Coding Agent That Ships Features While You Sleep

#ai #opensource #cli #coding

3 min read

Sinthes

Feb 17

I made Respectlytics (Privacy-First Mobile Analytics) open source and FREE for self-hosting

#analytics #opensource #mobile #django

2 min read

Feb 17

Your CLAUDE.md Instructions Are Being Ignored - Here's Why (and How to Fix It)

#ai #productivity #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Mathew

Feb 17

Bringing shadcn/ui to Blazor — Why I Built Blazor Blueprint

#blazor #dotnet #opensource #csharp

3 min read

Feb 17

Built Toice - Local Voice Typing for Linux

#linux #opensource #ai #privacy

1 min read

Feb 17

How We Added Custom CSS Injection to Watch Pages

#go #css #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Donnie Brown for OWASP BLT

Feb 18

Introducing BACON: The First Open Source Security Token Built on Bitcoin Runes

#bitcoin #blockchain #opensource #security

2 min read

Caleb Jeon

Feb 17

I Built a Pre-commit Security Scanner with Claude Code

#showdev #security #opensource #python

2 min read

Feb 18

A CI tool that stops AI from undoing your team's architectural decisions

#opensource #rust #react #webdev

3 min read

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