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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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Bebedi

Jan 6

Code Gems - A Community-Driven Platform to Share & Discover Amazing GitHub Projects

#opensource #github #webdev #community

2 min read

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Feb 9

Deploy Open Source SLMs (Small Language Models) locally - DeepSeek R1 Distilled .

#opensource #ai #rag #llm

2 min read

Abubaker Siddique

Jan 18

Open Source Projects into Money-Making Business: A Simple Guide

#beginners #tutorial #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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Mor Levi

Feb 9

How to Get Started with Open Source Contributions

#opensource #github #webdev #programming

2 min read

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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 27

⚙️How to Reduce Web Application Bundle Size?🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Feb 9

🌎 Building an Empire—One Creative Venture at a Time

#startup #webdev #opensource #development

2 min read

Feb 9

Open Source Software Development: The Power of Collaboration

#opensource #software

7 min read

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Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 19

Join us at Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#opensource #hackathon #ai #programming

1 min read

Feb 21

How to check node version programmatically?

#opensource #javascript #node #npm

2 min read

Varun Gujarathi

Feb 9

Setting Up Proxmox on a Laptop Without an Ethernet Port

#opensource #learning #cloud

3 min read

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Fede Bonel Tozzi

Feb 8

Top 5 Page Builders for React in 2025

#opensource #cms #react #webdev

22 min read

AI Agents Verse

Feb 12

5 Game-Changing Open-Source Platforms for Building Powerful AI Agents

#ai #development #opensource

5 min read

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Feb 8

Using Ollama models (FastAPI + React Native)

#opensource #llm #fastapi #ai

2 min read

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Astrodevil

Feb 4

Use Free DeepSeek R1 & V3 API with Bolt.DIY & Cursor in Just 3 Steps (EU-Hosted Model for Coding)🎉💥

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

8 min read

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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 18

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#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

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Ilbets

Feb 8

Game Night Just Got a Digital Upgrade: The Deck

#gamedev #flutter #mobile #opensource

6 min read

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Jan 31

The DeepSeek Disruption: AI, GEOPOLITICS AND Future of Open Source👑

#discuss #ai #opensource #machinelearning

8 min read

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Wanda

Feb 7

10 Practical DeepSeek R1 Prompts for Coding

#opensource #deepseek #ai #productivity

2 min read

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Kosmik for Onepoint

Feb 7

OpenRewrite: Refactoring as code

#java #tooling #refactoring #opensource

15 min read

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fmerian

Feb 2

Who's hiring? — February 2025

#career #devrel #writing #opensource

2 min read

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Ndiaga

Jan 4

Teaching Africa through AI, one language at a time

#ai #education #opensource #africa

1 min read

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Wanda

Feb 6

🚀Building an Open-Source ChatGPT Operator Alternative with DeepSeek R1！

#opensource #deepseek #ai #productivity

3 min read

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Nathan Tarbert for CopilotKit

Jan 29

Build Your Own RAG Copilot with Anthropic, Pinecone, & CopilotKit

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

15 min read

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Shreyas

Jan 4

Why Authorization Matters and How Cerbos Revolutionizes It

#security #authorization #privacy #opensource

5 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Feb 7

GitOps and ArgoCD: Revolutionizing Continuous Deployment in the Cloud Native Era

#cloudnative #gitops #git #opensource

5 min read

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