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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 21

Tech With Tim: 6 Hours of JavaScript Projects - From Beginner to Advanced

#opensource #git #api

1 min read

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Joel Hans for ngrok

Aug 21

'Doglabbing' ngrok: Eyes-only photo sharing with immich and OIDC

#homelab #devops #opensource #programming

5 min read

Calum

Jul 19

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752914

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

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sarim2000

Aug 11

How I Built a Privacy-First Expense Tracker with 100% On-Device AI

#android #kotlin #ai #opensource

2 min read

Calum

Jul 19

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752893

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

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NocoBase

Aug 11

6 Open-Source no-code Database Tools Like Airtable and Notion

#opensource #nocode #database #tooling

7 min read

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Aug 24

10 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Aug 20

Bug fix release 2.06 for the Perl Distribution Workflow

#opensource #release #perl

1 min read

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Aug 21

How to Build a Self-Correcting AI Agent for Product Search in E-Commerce

#ai #opensource #programming #python

14 min read

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RisingWave Labs

Jul 19

Towards Sub-100ms Latency Stream Processing with an S3-Based Architecture

#discuss #rust #opensource #datascience

7 min read

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Jul 22

Adding a Loading Animation to JHipster Lite CLI

#java #programming #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

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Guilherme Gonçalves Machado

Jul 18

Gurudev®: Explorations Toward a New Semantic Language and Interoperability Engine

#programming #opensource #learning #development

2 min read

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Jul 18

NeuroLeveL – A Smarter Discord XP System, Inspired by Perceptrons

#javascript #machinelearning #discord #opensource

3 min read

Jul 18

searchCode function in git-mcp codebase.

#mcptools #gitmcp #opensource #api

3 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Jul 18

NotebookLlaMa: Your New Favorite Open-Source LLM Playground

#llm #notebook #opensource #llamacloud

3 min read

Jul 22

Getting Started with YINI: A Modern, Human-Friendly Config Format

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Jul 19

Here's how git-mcp.io shows the typewriter effect on its landing page.

#typewritereffect #opensource #api #gitmcp

2 min read

Aug 21

Security trends change. New exploits appear every week. But the fundamentals? They don’t get old.

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

Calum

Jul 18

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752849

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

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Cahyanudien Aziz Saputra

Jul 18

Transform Your Phone Into a Wireless Microphone: Introducing FastiMic

#audiostreaming #software #opensource

4 min read

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Younes Noorzahi

Jul 22

Routing in Laravel

#laravel #php #opensource

1 min read

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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Aug 21

Documentation That Scales: Building Knowledge Systems for Growing Dev Agencies

#documentation #webdev #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Shivansh Barapatre

Aug 10

GPT-5 Has Arrived: What It Means for AWS & DevOps Engineers 🚀

#webdev #ai #chatgpt #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18

🧠 Kaizen Agent Architecture — How Our AI Agent Improves Other Agents

#discuss #ai #aiops #opensource

2 min read

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Jul 18

JAN AI - We got our first issue from the user for this project!

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

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