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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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Apr 20

HttpArena - Benchmark Web Frameworks

#showdev #opensource #performance #webdev

2 min read

Apr 20

I got tired of copy-pasting the same table code, so I built a library

#angular #typescript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Djowda for Djowda

Apr 20

We Open Sourced the Djowda Platform — Here Are 6 Challenges for the Community

#challenge #opensource #android #foodsecurity

3 min read

Amro

Apr 20

I built a Claude Code plugin that refuses to agree with me

#claude #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Apr 20

I Got Tired of Class-Heavy UI Code — So I Kept Going (Juice Part 3)

#webdev #opensource #css #frontend

3 min read

Apr 20

I Built a Cookie-Free Visitor Analytics Platform — Here's What I Learned

#analytics #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

From Knowledge Hoarding to Business Weapon: How My "Second Brain" Actually Made Money

#ai #opensource #knowledge #business

6 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

The Brutal Truth About Building a Personal Knowledge Base: What 1,847 Hours of Development Taught Me About AI vs Reality

#ai #opensource

8 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

From Code to Cash: How I Turned My Knowledge Hoarding into a Real Business

#ai #opensource #business

5 min read

Kit Good

Apr 20

A Learnability Gap, Not a Capacity Gap: 353 Parameters vs a 3-Parameter Heuristic

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #javascript

15 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

From Paper Chaos to Paper Peace: How I Finally Tamed My Knowledge Hoarding Monster

#ai #opensource

5 min read

Apr 20

Building a Free AI Chat Platform: The Architecture Behind HOCKS AI

#ai #firebase #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Apr 20

FLAMEHAVEN FileSearch: Why This RAG Engine Feels Different from the Usual Stack

#python #rag #opensource #architecture

9 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 20

Coal Keeps Slipping Through Kiwi-chan's Fingers! ⛏️

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Apr 20

I Wrote 30 E2E Tests for 5 Production Apps Using Only English — No Selectors, No XPath, No Flaky Tests

#testing #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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