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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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Jun 30

Architecture Doesn’t Care What You Build

#webdev #opensource #architecture #programming

3 min read

Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Jun 30

Forking laravel-livewire-tables for Laravel 13 + Livewire 4

#laravel #livewire #php #opensource

3 min read

Vladimir Stelmak

Jun 30

Your AI Agent Does Not Need More Chat History. It Needs Real Memory 🧠✨

#ai #rust #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Kadir Buyukguclu

Jun 30

I built HeaderLab — an open-source web security toolkit that runs entirely in your browser

#showdev #opensource #security #typescript

7 min read

n3lix

Jun 30

We wanted a simple forms API, so I built my own library

#react #opensource #nextjs #webdev

6 min read

Jun 30

Open source is like an amazing community swimming pool. 🏊‍♂️

#opensource #software #cybersecurity #cicd

2 min read

Johell

Jun 30

browser-search — three tools, zero cost, and your AI agent learns to search and browse the web

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

2 min read

ur-grue

Jun 30

What 'quality-tested' actually means for a library of 394 AI skills

#ai #opensource #claude #testing

2 min read

Martin Palopoli

Jun 30

Tracing, Prometheus metrics, and structured logs with two decorators: Fitz vs the OpenTelemetry setup in FastAPI

#webdev #observability #opentelemetry #opensource

8 min read

Jun 30

Bitcoin Isn’t Just Money It’s One of the Most Interesting Systems Engineers Can Study

#softwareengineering #bitcoin #opensource

1 min read