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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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Polliog

Dec 10

Show me your open-source project

#discuss #opensource #programming

2 min read

Dec 10

Introducing GoCVKit: Zero-Boilerplate Computer Vision in Go

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Dec 10

Open Source Engagement: What's Working Now?

#discuss #opensource #community

3 min read

Coroot

Dec 10

OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring the Overhead

#observability #opensource #devops #kubernetes

7 min read

Kyle Homen

Dec 10

Release 0.4 Update

#godot #godotengine #gdscript #opensource

2 min read

Rostislav Dugin

Dec 10

Postgresus 2.0: new version of open source PostgreSQL backup tool

#database #postgres #webdev #opensource

12 min read

Dec 10

I built a Laravel package to stop silent cron failures

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Muhammed Rasin O M

Dec 10

I Built a TUI to Visualize RAG Chunking because chunk_size=1000 is a Lie 📉

#rag #python #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Dec 10

Join the Web NFC Revolution: Contribute to the Open-Source Project at webnfc.org!

#webnfc #nfc #opensource

2 min read

jaeone

Dec 10

I Built a Local-First Secret Manager Because I Don't Trust AI Agents With My .env Files

#showdev #security #development #opensource

4 min read

Dec 10

A Complete Production-Ready Checklist for Smooth, Safe Deployments

#sre #devops #leadership #opensource

1 min read

Nfrax

Dec 10

Ship Production Apps in Days, Not Months: We Open-Sourced Our Entire Infrastructure Stack

#ai #programming #devex #opensource

6 min read

SeaQL

Dec 10

SeaORM 2.0: Strongly-Typed Column

#rust #database #programming #opensource

6 min read

Dec 10

Bifrost: A Drop-in LLM Proxy, 80x Faster Than LiteLLM & Fully OSS

#go #mcp #llm #opensource

8 min read

Dec 10

What is Host network driver?

#docker #devops #opensource #learning

5 min read

P_02

Dec 10

You’re Talking to Your AI Wrong. Here’s How to Fix It.

#ai #python #opensource #llm

3 min read

Alexey Nikitchenko

Dec 10

I built a language-guessing game

#showdev #webdev #opensource #gamedev

1 min read

Dec 10

Your Project Shouldn’t Break When You Switch Branches. So I Fixed It

#postgres #git #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Dec 10

# I Built an Apple-Style Glassmorphism React Component Library 🚀

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

DASWU

Dec 10

Design and Performance Optimization of juice sync for Enterprise Data Synchronization

#opensource

9 min read

Richard Sakaguchi

Dec 10

I Built a Brazilian Portuguese LLM from Scratch - Here's What I Learned

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #python

2 min read

Can Mingir for Centaur AI

Dec 10

Neuro-Symbolic AI: From Research to Industry

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

1 min read

ucmind

Dec 10

Why does AI still feel so “useless”?(and how to fix it)

#discuss #ai #opensource

3 min read

SATINATH MONDAL

Dec 9

envguard: A Better Way to Validate Environment Variables in Node.js

#typescript #node #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Aya

Dec 10

Hello World! 👋 Starting to share my progress

#discuss #beginners #opensource #welcome

1 min read

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