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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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OleksandraKordonets

Sep 20

OSD600 - Lab2

#github #opensource #cpp #devjournal

2 min read

Abhinav

Sep 20

From 0 to 0.1

#programming #opensource

1 min read

Abhinav

Sep 20

Commitment

#opensource #python

2 min read

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Sep 30

From Vision to Visualization: Building Pluggable Architecture for PHP

#php #architecture #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Mr Vi

Oct 2

Secure SSH Monitoring with Real-time Telegram Alerts

#devops #security #opensource #automation

4 min read

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karmen87

Sep 19

Harnessing Enthusiast for Scalable AI in E-Commerce — A Developer’s Guide

#ai #ecommerce #opensource #developer

4 min read

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Carlos Mendible

Sep 19

Azure Quick Review (azqr) v2.9.0 is out!

#azure #azqr #devops #opensource

1 min read

Oct 9

Hacktoberfest 2025 and the JEE-fication of Indian Tech

#hacktoberfest2025 #techculture #opensource #ai

2 min read

Kyle Homen

Sep 19

My experience in building the repository-context-packager tool

#python #opensource #cli #llm

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

Mastering Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Best Practices for Building Robust RAG Systems

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Sep 19

Building share-my-repo: My Journey Contributing to Open Source

#challenge #opensource #python #llm

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

How to Rank Data at Scale of Billions in Search Systems with AI, LLMs, and Advanced Ranking Algorithms

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

7 min read

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Stack Overflowed

Sep 24

Best Platform to Learn Artificial Intelligence: A Complete Guide

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Sep 19

`runTerminalCommand` function in Codebuff codebase.

#terminal #cli #opensource #codebuff

3 min read

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Mohammed Said Belaid

Sep 18

PlugBrain: The open-source app helping you take back control of your screen time

#opensource #androiddev #productivity #kotlin

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

The Trade-off Playbook: Engineering High-Impact Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems

#ai #devtools #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

CloudDefense.AI

Sep 19

Shai-Hulud: a self-propagating npm worm hits @ctrl/tinycolor and dozens more packages

#news #opensource #npm #security

2 min read

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cupped

Sep 19

New lightweight and open-source Minecraft Launcher for Linux

#python #programming #minecraft #opensource

1 min read

WH yang

Sep 18

Repo Dump CLI tool

#opensource #llm #cli #typescript

1 min read

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Havilah Academy

Sep 19

PlotSenseAI Hackathon 2025 begins today 🚀🚀

#ai #machinelearning #hackathon #opensource

1 min read

Sep 19

My experience with CLI tool

#llm #typescript #opensource #cli

2 min read

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Oct 10

Price Pipeline Health — transparency you can see (and trust)

#fintech #webdev #opensource #performance

3 min read

Samyak

Sep 18

Introducing: Clips Open-Source AI Clipping Tool for Every Creator

#showdev #tooling #ai #opensource

3 min read

Cooper

Sep 22

Show Your Work: devbox CLI

#opensource #productivity #containers #devops

1 min read

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NocoBase

Sep 19

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

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