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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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Random

Dec 9

I Built Everything Fast… Then One Page Destroyed My Confidence

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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Dec 9

Building SSR-Friendly Avatars with In-Browser AI: How I Trained Python Models and Ported Them to TensorFlow.js

#opensource #typescript #machinelearning #webdev

3 min read

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ARPIT SRIVASTAVA

Dec 9

Built a Rock-Solid E2E Tests for KubeStellar: A 3-Month Journey

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #kubestellar

5 min read

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Dec 9

context-async-sqlalchemy - The best way to use sqlalchemy in an async python application

#webdev #python #sql #opensource

10 min read

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Precious Chisom

Dec 9

Linux history

#computerscience #linux #opensource

6 min read

Dec 9

10 Open-Source Tools That Replaced My Paid SaaS Stack (And Why They Actually Deserved To)

#ai #opensource #resources #saas

3 min read

Asher Buk

Dec 9

Got my first open-source donation recently

#opensource #github #linux #buildinpublic

1 min read

Shubh

Dec 9

Built DockMate: A terminal UI for Docker (27 stars in 3 days)

#devops #docker #opensource #beginners

1 min read

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Rootflo Engineering

Dec 9

From Monolith to MicroAgents: Architecting Multi-Agent AI Systems

#opensource #middleware #ai #software

4 min read

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Ben Sabic

Dec 9

Stop Maintaining 20 Config Files for Your AI Coding Assistants

#ai #javascript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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Constantin

Dec 8

🚀 The Future of Information Retrieval (IR) — Looking for Testers & Feedback

#productivity #python #opensource #testing

2 min read

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Emir Taner

Dec 9

Why I Left Large Mining Pools for Smaller Ones - And The Unexpected Results

#webdev #web3 #programming #opensource

2 min read

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Dec 9

From Code to Context: Building Semantic Search & Live Chat Over Your Codebase with Vezlo

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

6 min read

NextBlock

Dec 8

Designing a Type-Safe Plugin System for Next.js: Why Zod is Our Secret Weapon

#zod #cms #opensource #nextjs

1 min read

Vibes

Dec 8

Base64 is Obsolete: Why I Built a Base-36 Encoder That Runs on Your Toaster

#rust #nol36 #opensource #base36

1 min read

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Nico

Dec 8

Built an app that provides various audio tweak tools and runs entirely in the browser

#showdev #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

ALSOPS

Dec 8

metaForge: A Multi-Language Build & Automation Compiler

#programming #opensource #buildtools #programminglanguages

1 min read

Dec 9

Release 0.4- Progress

#ui #json #opensource

1 min read

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Stef Antonio Virgil

Dec 8

Collective AI Memory for Engineering Teams (Open Source)

#ai #opensource #typescript #npm

2 min read

Dec 8

Building a High-Performance Open-Source LLM Gateway: Bifrost (54x Faster than LiteLLM)

#go #ai #opensource #chatgpt

2 min read

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Dec 8

AI-Friendly README: Stop Claude & ChatGPT Hallucinations

#documentation #ai #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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Tatted Dev

Dec 8

HoneyDrunk.Transport: A Transport Agnostic Messaging Framework for .NET

#programming #architecture #opensource #dotnet

2 min read

Dec 9

This is my software journey

#learning #cryptography #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

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Dec 8

Bifrost: An LLM Gateway built for enterprise-grade reliability, governance, and scale(50x Faster than LiteLLM)

#go #opensource #llm #mcp

2 min read

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Dec 8

Oh, Nice Repo!

#github #opensource

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