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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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OB

Nov 20

OmniDictate v2.0: The Future of Local Dictation on Windows

#showdev #privacy #opensource #ai

2 min read

Dec 2

BJH OS — Free, Open Source, Browser-Based OS Built with HTML, CSS & JavaScript

#opensource #webdev #javascript #github

3 min read

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Qodex

Nov 20

Turn your code into OpenAPI 3.0 docs in seconds

#api #opensource #tooling #automation

2 min read

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Ivan G.

Dec 2

How I decided to revive my project that was stale for 5 years...

#opensource #github #webdev #sideprojects

3 min read

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Alexandr Bandurchin for Uptrace

Nov 20

OpenTelemetry Filelog Receiver

#monitoring #opensource #kubernetes #devops

9 min read

Dec 2

I open sourced Introlix - an AI research platform

#ai #opensource #llm #agents

2 min read

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PikaPods

Nov 24

🧐 Cyber Monday Reality Check for Devs

#opensource #smartspending #webdev

1 min read

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Dec 2

Migrate your WordPress blog to Sanity in an afternoon (open-source tool)

#wordpress #sanity #opensource #github

5 min read

Steven Hur

Nov 18

Debugging Windows Race Conditions in Dagster

#devjournal #dataengineering #python #opensource

3 min read

Nov 20

VIBE CLI & VIBE CODE

#showdev #opensource #tooling #ai

5 min read

Nov 23

OSD600: Lab 9

#learning #github #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

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Alexandr Bandurchin for Uptrace

Nov 20

OpenTelemetry Gin Monitoring [otelgin]

#monitoring #backend #opensource #go

3 min read

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MW

Nov 20

I Built a $150k AI Sales Acceleration Platform with AWS + Salesforce and Open-Sourced the Entire Thing

#aws #salesforce #ai #opensource

1 min read

Kyle Homen

Nov 18

Continuing with ShooterCarnival

#godotengine #gdscript #opensource

2 min read

Mauricio Reisdoefer

Nov 19

Brazilian - Python Lib

#python #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

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Sanjay Joshi for Wrappixel

Nov 20

How to Install & Deploy MaterialM Bootstrap Admin Template

#webdev #bootstrap #development #opensource

4 min read

Diego

Nov 19

I got tired of writing .cursorrules manually for every project, so I built a visual generator (Free & Open)

#opensource #tooling #ai #productivity

1 min read

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Dec 2

How I Automated a Full GitLab Migration Using Bash (Real Case Study + Scripts)

#gitlab #bash #opensource #linux

2 min read

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BACOUL

Nov 21

TimeProofs v0.1 — A Free, Privacy-First Timestamp API for Developers (Public Beta)

#webdev #ai #opensource #security

3 min read

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Ghofrane Baaziz

Nov 24

I built a custom range slider for Retool with a histogram built in

#javascript #typescript #opensource #lowcode

3 min read

MapNav_Dev

Nov 18

Warum OpenStreetMap nicht nur eine Karte, sondern eine Bewegung ist, der man beitreten sollte

#openstreetmap #gis #opensource #geodata

3 min read

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Dec 2

I Built an Open-Source Kubernetes Dashboard - Here's What I Learned

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #python

1 min read

Jieke Pan

Nov 18

Adaptive Anti-Corruption Layer (AACL)

#llm #agents #aacl #opensource

1 min read

oshi-git

Nov 18

Solving the 'resource_func' Mystery: How I Made Ballerina's Compiler More User-Friendly

#ballerina #opensource #compiler #devrel

5 min read

Nov 20

Project Structure in Umami codebase - Part 1.3

#umami #architecture #opensource #projectstructure

2 min read

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