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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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Cover image for Git by example - The signature you will not forget! ("missing DCO signoff")

Jan 26

Git by example - The signature you will not forget! ("missing DCO signoff")

#git #opensource #dco

2 min read

Cover image for My $5/month RAG System Just Got Eyes: Adding Multimodal Search Without Breaking the Bank

Jan 25

My $5/month RAG System Just Got Eyes: Adding Multimodal Search Without Breaking the Bank

#cloudflare #ai #webdev #opensource

8 min read

Vivek Kalyanarangan

Jan 26

I got 29x speedup rewriting Python's validators library in Rust

#rust #python #performance #opensource

2 min read

Jan 25

Pingora Guide - How To Make A Programmable API Gateway

#rust #programming #tutorial #opensource

153 min read

Cover image for I built the CMS I always wanted for my personal sites

Jan 26

I built the CMS I always wanted for my personal sites

#showdev #webdev #php #opensource

10 min read

aelassas

Jan 26

Servy vs. NSSM vs. WinSW

#devops #opensource #programming #microsoft

2 min read

Jan 26

I got tired of my web app silently breaking after every deploy, so I built an open source QA platform

#webdev #opensource #testing #javascript

4 min read

Jan 26

From 10,000 to 18: Drastically Improving Luau Bytecode Decompilation Quality

#algorithms #codequality #gamedev #opensource

19 min read

Cover image for tokenex adds Vault & OpenBao support: Exchanging ID tokens (JWTs) for secrets without static credentials

Riptides for Riptides

Jan 26

tokenex adds Vault & OpenBao support: Exchanging ID tokens (JWTs) for secrets without static credentials

#security #nhi #vault #opensource

10 min read

Stepan Romankov

Jan 26

Testing Telegram Bots in CI/CD: Zero Tokens Required

#rust #testing #opensource #telegram

8 min read

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Barbora Klusackova

Jan 26

Devlog-OSS-Finder-03: Good First Issues and Testing

#opensource #testing #aws #webdev

2 min read

Sivaram

Jan 26

Clawdbot: The AI Assistant That's Breaking the Internet

#productivity #ai #clawd #opensource

4 min read

Digiwares

Jan 26

I Built a Group Chat That Draws Itself Into a Graph - Here's How

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Jan 26

AirToShare – Instant File & Text Sharing Across Devices Without Cloud or Login

#showdev #opensource #productivity #webdev

1 min read

Julia

Jan 26

Stopping Hidden Threats: AI Safety in PDF Processing

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jan 26

Looking for contributors: Automata_Diags (Python automata toolkit)

#opensource #automatatheory #pythonpackage #github

1 min read

Roco

Jan 26

We got tired of users asking "is this file legit?" so we built a verification system

#security #opensource #webdev #devops

2 min read

Cover image for heyvm: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My VMs

Adish M

Jan 26

heyvm: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My VMs

#devops #opensource #cli #productivity

1 min read

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Dhruvin Rupesh Soni

Jan 26

How I Built an LLM Chat UI Better Than ChatGPT (As a Backend Engineer)

#opensource #react #typescript #llm

8 min read

Jan 26

Building a Desktop Transcriber with Whisper AI: Unlimited & Free

#whisper #opensource #dotnet #ai

2 min read

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TechNova

Jan 26

You Locked the Front Door, But Invited the Thief Through the Update: Supply Chain Attacks Explained

#security #cybersecurity #devops #opensource

10 min read

Sevada Ghazaryan

Jan 26

Stop Fighting YAML: I Built a Visual Docker Compose Architect to Fix It

#docker #opensource #devops #productivity

3 min read

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Gaurav Talesara

Jan 26

NVIDIA’s Open-Source Voice AI Is Quietly Changing Customer Support

#ai #llm #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Shipped 6+ visual effects on Seazonify ✨

Jan 26

Shipped 6+ visual effects on Seazonify ✨

#webdev #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Rafael Cury Rayes

Jan 26

I Built a Hardware Description Language with JUST logic gates (and Here’s Why)

#programming #python #c #opensource

2 min read

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