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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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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Apr 3

10 Time Management Strategies for Developers to Boost Productivity in 2025

#productivity #opensource #webdev #devops

5 min read

Apr 3

7 Top API Documentation Software Tools 2025 (With Reviews and Pricing)✨

#programming #webdev #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Apr 3

ConfirmUploadState component in FilePizza codebase.

#opensource #javascript #filepizza #webrtc

3 min read

Apr 2

5 Awesome n8n Alternatives

#opensource #webdev #ai #cloud

4 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 2

Realtime: Broadcast from Database

#webdev #productivity #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Rowen

Apr 2

FlashTokenizer: The World’s Fastest CPU Tokenizer

#nlp #python #cpp #opensource

2 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Apr 2

Create Ghibli-Style Images With Flux-ChatGPT Ghibli LoRA: A Step-by-Step Guide

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #chatgpt

6 min read

NocoBase

Apr 3

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

12 min read

Syed Anas Mohiuddin

Apr 2

AI still can’t count. I built a dataset to prove it: VisQuant

#visquant #opensource #ai #openai

1 min read

Mahmudur Rahman

Apr 2

Let’s Build Something for Nature and Humanity – Join the GreenPulse Community!

#community #programmers #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Apr 2

Need your help for an open source decentralised messaging app

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

1 min read

Apr 2

Feature release 0.48.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #gha #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2

Setting Up Llama 3.2 Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI: A Complete Guide

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Team Timescale for Timescale

Apr 2

10M IoT Data Points Daily at 50% Lower Storage Costs Using PostgreSQL

#database #postgres #devops #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2

Check out my ethical Hacking tools on my Github.

#ai #python #github #opensource

1 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Apr 1

Automate 90% of Your Work with AI Agents (Real Examples & Code Inside) 🚀 🤖

#programming #ai #opensource #productivity

15 min read

Apr 1

BackupSync: A Comprehensive Linux Backup Solution for Developers and SysAdmins

#linux #backup #opensource #sysadmin

3 min read

Apr 1

New Python Language

#programming #python #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Apr 1

Porting is-odd npm to OCaml using remelange compiler

#javascript #ocaml #npm #opensource

2 min read

Nikolas

Apr 1

Call for feedback to the dev community

#api #community #testing #opensource

1 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 1

Edge Functions: Deploy from the Dashboard + Deno 2.1

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 1

Postgres Language Server: Initial Release

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

12 min read

Apr 1

Introduction to Key-Value Stores

#programming #go #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

Apr 1

Integrating a Custom Provider into the ONLYOFFICE AI Plugin

#onlyoffice #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 1

WebRTCPeerProvider component in FilePizza codebase.

#javascript #opensource #webrtc #filepizza

3 min read

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