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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 26

Discover Flyy.js: The Lightweight Hero for Effortless Data Management in JavaScript

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

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Muhammed Sabith

Aug 30

My first VS Code Extension

#programming #javascript #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Unknownerror-404

Aug 26

Juggling multiple interests.

#machinelearning #jason #academia #opensource

11 min read

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Aug 30

Instantly Convert PDFs to Structured JSON with JSONIFY

#opensource #webdev #ai #python

1 min read

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Luke Hinds

Aug 30

🤖 Build Your First Fully Autonomous AI Agent - Free Workshop! 🚀

#ai #agentaichallenge #aiops #opensource

1 min read

Yash Desai

Aug 26

Kimi K2: The Game-Changing Open-Source AI That's Rewriting the Rules of Intelligent Development

#ai #llm #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

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Johnathan

Aug 29

I Built a 6-Headed AI Intelligence System (No Subscriptions Required!)

#python #opensource #webdev #automation

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Aug 29

The System Didn’t Ask, It Just Made You Comply

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

7 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Aug 26

String Dalam Bahasa Earl

#programming #opensource #learning #beginners

1 min read

drorIvry

Aug 27

Ranger-mini: Open Model for Agentic tool use evaluation

#ai #opensource #llm #mcp

3 min read

ByteKnight

Aug 29

Open Source is one person

#opensource #software #developers

1 min read

quanlegia

Aug 26

AI Code Review Action – Automated PR Reviews Using AI (OpenAI, Gemini, ...)

#ai #githubactions #opensource #cicd

2 min read

ByteKnight

Aug 29

🔄 Syncthing: The Open‑Source Way to Keep Your Files in Sync

#opensource #backup #android #linux

1 min read

Aug 29

Check Out 3 Awesome Open Source Tabular Data Wrangling Apps

#dataengineering #csv #python #opensource

3 min read

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Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Aug 29

Project of the Week: PyTorch

#discuss #github #opensource #tensorflow

3 min read

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Aug 25

🚀 Self-Hosting Without the Headaches: My First Look at PikaPods

#pikapods #opensource #hostingapp #webdev

2 min read

Alexis Clarembeau

Aug 29

A new tool to manage your i18n locale files

#i18n #opensource #npm #cli

3 min read

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ToufiQ

Aug 25

Brave vs Chrome: Which Browser Should You Use in 2025? 🆚

#browser #privacy #opensource #devtools

2 min read

zaheetdev

Aug 29

Node.js v24.7.0 Released – Post-Quantum Cryptography, Modern WebCrypto, and More

#node #javascript #security #opensource

3 min read

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ToufiQ

Aug 25

DietPi: El sistema operativo Linux ultraligero que potencia tu Raspberry Pi

#linux #opensource #raspberrypi #dietpi

1 min read

ToufiQ

Aug 25

What is the operating system FuguIta

#bsd #opensource #livecd #linux

2 min read

Misha Zaslavskiy

Aug 28

Use LLM for EDA licenses analysis

#cad #mcp #prometheus #opensource

2 min read

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Aug 28

7 open-source MCP servers that make AI agents actually learn stuff

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

24 min read

Misha Zaslavskiy

Aug 28

EDA license utilization dashboard

#cad #opensource #grafana #prometheus

3 min read

Trix Cyrus

Aug 24

Linux From Zero Part - 1🐧 What is Linux? A Simple Guide for Beginners

#linux #beginners #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

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