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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.

submission guidelines

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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Atyah

Feb 18

I built a CLI tool to stop .env file chaos across environments

#showdev #node #opensource

1 min read

Jack Luar

Feb 19

OpenROAD MCP: Let AI Close Your Timing

#ai #mcp #opensource

3 min read

sidd190 for OWASP BLT

Feb 20

My Journey Contributing to BLT

#opensource #security #learning

2 min read

Feb 19

How We Found and Fixed a Hidden View Inflation Bug

#go #webdev #opensource #debugging

4 min read

Azeruddin Sheikh

Feb 19

Tappi: Your Browser on Autopilot - Without the Token Tax

#ai #python #automation #opensource

5 min read

Feb 19

How We Added Closed Captions to Embedded Videos

#go #webdev #opensource #a11y

3 min read

Feb 19

Lessons from OpenClaw's Architecture for Agent Builders

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

14 min read

Feb 19

I Reverse Engineered ChatGPT's UI Into an OpenAI Compatible API and Here's Why You Shouldn't

#python #opensource #openai #ai

11 min read

Feb 19

How We Added Call-to-Action Buttons to Shared Videos

#go #webdev #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Unicorn Developer

Feb 19

Exploring OpenAPI Generator via static analysis

#java #opensource

10 min read

Akemmanuel

Feb 19

I Built a Native Desktop GUI for OpenCode in 4 Days With AI

#opensource #ai #programming #electron

4 min read

Aasim Sani

Feb 19

🌳 gwt — Stupidly Simple Git Worktrees. Isolated Branches for AI Coding.

#git #zsh #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Max Mendes

Feb 19

How I Built an AI System to Find Polish Businesses Without Websites

#ai #automation #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jialu

Feb 19

GPT Apps: How OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Into an App Platform & How to Build One in Production

#agents #opensource #typescript #devops

4 min read

Feb 19

How We Built Viewer Engagement Analytics Without a Tracking SDK

#go #analytics #opensource #webdev

5 min read

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