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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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Carrie

Apr 24

How to Filter Bot used by SEO and Cyber Attacks in SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #bot #seobot #opensource

2 min read

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May 13

Linux in Action: Managing Directories and Files

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

7 min read

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Alex Enson

Apr 20

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 9)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Zako Mako

Jun 7

ZewpolOS: a Linux-based secure OS for browsing the web

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Mario Alberto Chávez

Nov 13

Rails MCP Server with HTTP Server-Sent Events support

#news #ruby #rails #opensource

5 min read

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Serhii Zhabskyi

May 24

Supercharge Your Axios Requests: axios-retryer for Robust API Communication

#webdev #typescript #axios #opensource

10 min read

May 3

The Vibrant World of the Gitcoin Community

#gitcoin #blockchain #opensource

8 min read

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Mohsin Ali

Jun 16

First Star on My Repo. That Hit Different.

#github #opensource #python #react

1 min read

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Pierre-Clément Kerneis

May 24

We Need a Spec Format for Design, QA, and Documentation

#testing #frontend #ux #opensource

3 min read

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devops methodology

May 24

MERN App Deployed on Kubernetes | 3 TIER WEB APPLICATION via Kubeadm

#devops #mern #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Jun 7

Execa usage in Zod source code.

#cli #opensource #typescript

2 min read

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Rajat

Apr 20

How I built an Android PDF viewer that’s almost 100 KB (ONLY!)

#android #opensource

1 min read

May 24

Introducing AI Shahab: A Free Persian AI Chatbot with the New "cas" Language Model

#showdev #ai #opensource #discuss

1 min read

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Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

May 24

How to build index with text embeddings

#showdev #opensource #ai #python

3 min read

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Adamar

Jun 10

GSC

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Mohamed Ebrahim Wahshey

May 3

10 Tiny Developer Tools I Built to Save Time – Free & Browser-Based

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

May 23

Free Linux Foundation Certifications on Cybersecurity, IoT, Web Development, and More

#learning #beginners #opensource #career

1 min read

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Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

May 22

Encore's MCP Server lets your AI tools introspect your app

#ai #go #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Pavel

May 23

# 🧩 nodeBond: Lightweight IPC for Node.js — revived and improved

#node #javascript #microservices #opensource

2 min read

Dave Tofflemire

May 23

Forged in Silence: Building Sigil Without an Audience

#opensource #rust #ai #machinelearning

2 min read

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May 22

Feature release 0.49.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#opensource #gha #spelling

2 min read

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James D Ingersoll (Ghost King) for GodsIMiJ AI Solutions

May 23

LocoLama – Local AI Chat Terminal Using Ollama + Next.js (DROP002)

#ai #opensource #github #ollama

2 min read

May 23

RHCSA Prep for Absolute Beginners: The “Diskless but Determined” Edition

#linux #cloudwhistler #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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May 12

Getting Started with Linux: System Information and User Management

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

2 min read

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Mike Freedman for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jun 10

The Database Meets the Lakehouse: Toward a Unified Architecture for Modern Applications

#news #opensource #database #postgres

6 min read

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