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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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Feb 17

Shedding Old Code with Ecdysis: Zero-Downtime Upgrades for Rust Services

#rust #cloudflare #ecdysis #opensource

1 min read

Francesca

Feb 17

Welcome to Me!

#productivity #opensource #testing #cli

1 min read

Feb 16

The GitHub Copilot SDK: Agents for Every App

#github #ai #devex #opensource

8 min read

Feb 16

I Built an Open-Source Security Scanner for AI Agents — Here's What I Found Scanning My Own

#security #ai #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Feb 15

Building a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for Stellar RPC with Rust and Ratatui

#stellar #rust #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

MaxxMini

Feb 18

Why Your Budget App Fails: Plan vs Reality Tracking with DonFlow

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Feb 16

From Portfolio Widget to npm Package: Building a Spotify Now Playing Card

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Syed Roman

Feb 17

I Built 29 Free Tools That Never Upload Your Files

#javascript #webassembly #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Dinesh G

Feb 17

ArrayList and LinkedList

#programming #java #react #opensource

3 min read

Francisco López

Feb 16

Your Phone Already Has the Hardware to Prove a Photo Is Real. Nothing Uses It.

#opensource #reactnative #mobile #security

3 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Feb 20

I Built a Free AI Legal Assistant That Replaces $1,200/Month Software — and Open-Sourced It

#opensource #ai #webdev #python

5 min read

Wass B.

Feb 16

Multi Programming Languages Projects Made Easy - I Built Mangle.dev

#opensource #programming #tooling #api

1 min read

Feb 16

How a Small OSINT Team Turned the Epstein Files Dump Into Actionable Intelligence

#ai #productivity #opensource #security

5 min read

Feb 16

MySQL replication setup — 6 steps to configure master-slave replication

#database #opensource #mysql

8 min read

John

Feb 16

Build and run real-time media pipelines, Speech to Text, Voice Agents, live audio processing

#ai #opensource #startup #agents

1 min read

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