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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 pg_ducklake: Columnar Storage for PostgreSQL

Yuwei Xiao

Mar 11

pg_ducklake: Columnar Storage for PostgreSQL

#database #postgres #duckdb #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I Found an Open-Source AI Agent That Runs on Your Laptop and Talks Through Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp

Divyanshu Sharma

Mar 6

I Found an Open-Source AI Agent That Runs on Your Laptop and Talks Through Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp

#opensource #python #ai #selfhosted

3 min read

Lyra

Mar 7

Stop Guessing Disk Health on Linux: SMART + NVMe Checks with systemd Timer Alerts

#linux #devops #automation #opensource

4 min read

Will badr

Mar 7

I Built a Database That Never Forgets — Here's Why

#rust #database #sql #opensource

14 min read

Mar 7

Trasform your logs to metrics (and do maths with metrics) using the OpenTelemetry Collector

#opentelemetry #tutorial #opensource #devops

1 min read

Cover image for Layout Builder Expansion & Signature Input – Shadcn UI Multi Form v1.5.0

Santiago Moraga Caldera

Mar 11

Layout Builder Expansion & Signature Input – Shadcn UI Multi Form v1.5.0

#opensource #nextjs #shadcnui #buildinpublic

3 min read

Cover image for I built a simple guide/spotlight tool for complex web apps (open source)

Mar 8

I built a simple guide/spotlight tool for complex web apps (open source)

#opensource #ui #webdev #react

2 min read

Cover image for Stop Solving Solved Problems: Escaping the Cycle of Duplicated Code

Mar 11

Stop Solving Solved Problems: Escaping the Cycle of Duplicated Code

#discuss #beginners #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Mar 7

I Built CrowEnv: An Encrypted Replacement for .env Files

#webdev #opensource #security #typescript

5 min read

Cover image for Fish Audio S2-Pro：用自然语言控制语音情感的 TTS 模型

Garyvov

Mar 11

Fish Audio S2-Pro：用自然语言控制语音情感的 TTS 模型

#ai #machinelearning #nlp #opensource

1 min read

Mar 20

Matrix Vs Discord

#community #opensource #privacy #socialmedia

5 min read

Nebu0528

Mar 29

I Built a Tool to Distribute Python Tasks Across Local Machines. Here's How It Performed

#showdev #distributedsystems #cli #opensource

3 min read

Mar 6

Navidrome vs Plex for Music: Which Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Cover image for I Built a Production-Ready Rust Web API Starter Kit (axum-starter)

Mar 7

I Built a Production-Ready Rust Web API Starter Kit (axum-starter)

#rust #webdev #backend #opensource

2 min read

Kai

Mar 7

We shipped a unified Activity feed API for AI agent teams — here's why visibility matters more than velocity

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

2 min read

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