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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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Sep 12

Maintaining Arch Linux AUR Packages: Updating python-simple-term-menu to the Latest Release

#archlinux #aur #python #opensource

1 min read

Sep 12

shutdownManager.ts in mcp-mermaid codebase.

#cleanup #mcp #mermaid #opensource

2 min read

Sep 12

`#` symbol to define private class fields and methods in JavaScript.

#opensource #ripple #javascript #private

2 min read

Sep 12

RAG??? What It Is and Why You Should Care (Especially If You’re a Student)

#ai #productivity #opensource #learning

3 min read

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momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 12

🚀 Day 5 of my 90-Day Free Python Script Series! 🐍

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Oct 4

Decoding Hearts: AI-Powered ECG Analysis for Silent Diseases

#datascience #machinelearning #healthtech #opensource

2 min read

Sep 25

Build a Clean Web3 Storefront in Next.js (Free Template Included)

#web3 #opensource #tutorial #nextjs

2 min read

DASWU

Sep 12

JuiceFS Writeback: The Write Acceleration Mechanism and Its Applicable Scenarios

#ai #opensource

6 min read

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本性

Sep 16

ComboLite: Android plugin framework, helping you easily build dynamic applications where "everything is pluggable."

#android #kotlin #pluginframework #opensource

19 min read

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NocoBase

Sep 12

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

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Cristina Rodriguez

Oct 4

Building SazónBot: A Journey from Family Recipes to AI Chatbot

#nextjs #ai #agentai #opensource

3 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 12

Agile Beyond IT: Lessons for Non-Tech Teams

#agile #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Sep 12

Deep Doctrine Research: A Latter-day Saint symbolic study of doctrinal themes

#research #philosophy #opensource #notebooklm

1 min read

Sep 12

DynamoDB Support in GoFr: Supercharging Data Management for Go Applications

#dynamodb #go #opensource #aws

7 min read

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Sep 11

Feature releases 0.52.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #opensource #gha

1 min read

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Ali Alp

Sep 16

How the live Kubernetes DNS Tunneling Demo Was Scripted ? live at CDS 2025 Conference !

#kubernetes #productivity #opensource #security

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

ElshadHu

Oct 3

How I Made My First Successful Hacktoberfest Pull Request

#github #opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest

2 min read

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Sep 11

🚀 Veille tech semaine 37

#news #opensource #ai #php

3 min read

Judy

Sep 11

The top N customers who accounted for half of the sales that year--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #esproc

2 min read

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Sep 11

A Quick Take on K8s 1.34 GA DRA: 7 Questions You Probably Have

#ai #devops #kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Sep 11

Symbol.iterator in Ripple codebase.

#ripple #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 11

Open-source app for booking meeting rooms

#opensource #kmp #kotlin #automation

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Sep 15

Who Is Responsible When Algorithms Rule? Reintroducing Human Accountability in Executable Governance

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

4 min read

Sreenath

Sep 10

How to Generate Code in Vim Without Leaving Your Editor (llmswap Tutorial)

#vim #tutorial #ai #opensource

5 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Sep 11

One line of code caused the SeaTunnel Kafka connector to eat 12GB of memory in 5 mins!

#programming #bigdata #apacheseatunnel #opensource

2 min read

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