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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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Aug 4

I Built BackupGuardian After a 3AM Production Disaster Taught Me Not to Trust "Good" Backups

#opensource #devops #database #node

1 min read

Jul 30

Creating Smart Text Input in Streamlit with Real-Time Suggestions

#streamlit #ai #opensource #python

4 min read

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Sujith S

Jul 30

Voxtral: The Open Source Speech Recognition We've Been Waiting For

#ai #privacy #opensource #security

2 min read

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sarabadu

Aug 21

What is blocking us from contributing more

#opensource #innersource #contribution

3 min read

Abdul Rehman Khan

Aug 3

The New Era of Self-Hosting: Why Developers Are Taking Back Control

#selfhosting #devops #privacy #opensource

3 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jul 30

From Logs to Alerts: Mastering SeaTunnel's Event Listener Capabilities

#apacheseatunnel #opensource #techinicalwriting #programming

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jul 30

New community contributions: X2SeaTunnel helps you migrate to SeaTunnel seamlessly!

#opensource #apacheseatunnel #datatransfer #bigdata

1 min read

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Jul 30

From DynamoDB Limitations to PostgreSQL Innovation: How I Built AuroraWire

#aws #postgres #opensource #serverless

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jul 30

Perintah Primer dan Sekunder Earl

#programming #opensource #earl #indonesia

2 min read

Jul 30

Solving Redis pain in NestJS — introducing nestjs-redis toolkit

#nestjs #redis #opensource #node

2 min read

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Jafran Jemal for AavanamKit

Aug 12

Stop Building Invoices. Give Your Users a React Design Studio Instead.

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Chen Debra

Jul 31

Step-by-Step: Deploying a High Availability DolphinScheduler Cluster with Rainbond

#apchedolphinscheduler #opensource #rainbond #programming

2 min read

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Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 29

5 Ways to Improve Your Contributor Documentation

#discuss #opensource #github #documentation

5 min read

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Matthew Walther

Jul 29

How to sell open source technology to the government

#news #opensource #procurement #government

13 min read

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Jul 29

GSoC Week 8: Linting Upgrades, UI Redesigns & Simulator

#flutter #opensource #dart #rust

4 min read

Cover image for 🌱 My Idea Tracker Journey with Appwrite (from “Hello World” to Hoodie!)

Abhi Varde

Aug 28

🌱 My Idea Tracker Journey with Appwrite (from “Hello World” to Hoodie!)

#appwrite #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

3 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 2

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 1: The Problem with Traditional Spring Batch Scaling

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

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ALI

Jul 29

MIA – The AI Assistant That Might Replace You (or Just Roast You)

#python #opensource #ai #fastapi

1 min read

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Endzy

Jul 29

Web app that generates a Virtual Room based on your Spotify stats

#webdev #aspnet #opensource #csharp

1 min read

Maxim

Jul 28

Introducing HruHruLauncher — a custom Minecraft launcher written in Python with PySide6

#python #qt #minecraft #opensource

1 min read

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Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Aug 11

How to Install & Run GPT-OSS 20b and 120b GGUF Locally?

#gptoss #openai #opensource #ai

7 min read

Cover image for I've Seen the Future of UI Development. It's Insane, Written in Rust, and Rendered by an AI.

Pavel

Aug 28

I've Seen the Future of UI Development. It's Insane, Written in Rust, and Rendered by an AI.

#rust #ai #opensource #ui

3 min read

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Hiroshi Tsubokawa

Jul 28

Memory Management in Turbine: A Markdown-Inspired Scripting Language

#programming #c #cpp #opensource

3 min read

SilentPuck

Jul 28

I built SilentGPT – a terminal-based ChatGPT client in C with encrypted chat history

#c #opensource #privacy #terminal

1 min read

Jul 28

🟩 commit-checker v0.6.1 – Track GitHub streaks, TIL logs, and unlock CLI achievements

#opensource #cli #programming #productivity

2 min read

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