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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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Shachar Solomon

Apr 9

PushCI v1.3.0: Your CI Tool Supports Three Languages and You Are Fine With That?

#cicd #devops #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Archrad

Apr 8

Your architecture drifts before you write a single line of code

#showdev #opensource #architecture #typescript

3 min read

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Kin Lane

Apr 7

Naftiko Framework Alpha 1: Turning API Sprawl Into Governed Capabilities for AI

#showdev #ai #api #opensource

6 min read

Konstantin Vasserman

Apr 8

Adding Hybrid Search to Your Application (In Diagrams)

#search #architecture #devops #opensource

1 min read

Iyadh Khalfallah

Apr 7

I Analyzed 42 Claude Code Sessions. 69% of My Tokens Were Wasted.

#ai #opensource #devtools #productivity

4 min read

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WonderLab

Apr 8

One Open Source Project a Day (No.33): DeerFlow - ByteDance's SuperAgent Execution Engine

#ai #opensource #langchain #agents

7 min read

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Andrei Merlescu

Apr 30

Humanized Software Engineering In Era Of AI

#discuss #ai #career #opensource

9 min read

Abiruzzaman Molla

Apr 8

🕌 Daily Prayer Timer (Native): A Sleek Glassmorphic Windows App for your Taskbar

#windows #muslimprayertime #taskbartimer #opensource

1 min read

7aRd1GrAd3

Apr 8

The Language We Forgot We Needed

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Masaki Komagata

Apr 21

Active Storage without libvips or ImageMagick: a pure-Ruby alternative

#showdev #ruby #rails #opensource

4 min read

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Balaji K

May 1

✨ One HTML file. No backend. No sign-up. Your data never leaves your browser.

#opensource #sideprojects #personalfinance #webdev

2 min read

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Noan

Apr 8

How to georeference a map with QGIS

#beginners #opensource #tooling #tutorial

3 min read

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Buffer Overflow

Apr 7

GN Beats Gzip and Brotli: How a Learning Sliding Window Outperforms Static Compressors

#compression #rust #algorithms #opensource

4 min read

Kareem Al-Farsi

Apr 7

Building Photon: A Hybrid Ray Tracer That Builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS

#raytracing #c #programming #opensource

3 min read

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Dmitriy A.

Apr 7

Build an uptime monitoring setup with Globalping and open source tools

#opensource #networking #tooling #resources

6 min read

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