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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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Ragaeeb

Feb 18 '25

🚀 useMutableState: Tiny state management hook to easily edit deeply nested properties

#react #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Feb 23 '25

Arbitrum vs. Polygon: A Deep Dive into Ethereum's Layer 2 Scaling Solutions

#opensource #ethereumscalability #arbitrum #polygon

2 min read

Bruh Buh

Feb 20 '25

🔥 13 Most Exciting GitHub Projects This Week - 2025-02-20

#github #opensource #programming #python

19 min read

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Mar 24 '25

Taming Non-Deterministic LLM Output with Pydantic: A Text-to-SQL Journey

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #datascience

5 min read

Nicholas Coffey

Feb 18 '25

Why I Chose Neovim

#opensource #learning #vim #productivity

4 min read

Mar 24 '25

My Outreachy Application Experience: What I Did Right and What You Need to Know – A Complete Guide

#opensource #outreachy #fedora #community

3 min read

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Mar 20 '25

Cyclops Launch Week #2

#showdev #opensource #kubernetes #devops

4 min read

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Feb 19 '25

🚀 Open-Source React Developer Portfolio – Build Your Own! 💼

#react #webdev #opensource #portfoliowebsite

1 min read

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Neurolov

Mar 13 '25

Neurolov Partners with Victus Global: Strategic Services to Supercharge $NLOV and Decentralized AI Growth

#web3 #ai #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

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Mar 24 '25

Understanding the Adapter Design Pattern: Bridging Incompatible Interfaces

#designpatterns #programming #opensource #typescript

3 min read

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Emre Can Kartal

Feb 18 '25

Jan v0.5.15: More control over llama.cpp settings, advanced hardware control, and more

#ai #llm #opensource #llamacpp

2 min read

Feb 18 '25

Navigating the Financial Landscape of Open Source Projects

#monetizeopensource #opensource #revenuemodels #financialsustainability

2 min read

Feb 18 '25

Supporting the Backbone of Innovation: Financial Assistance for Open Source Developers

#projectfunding #opensource #financialassistance #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

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Mar 24 '25

Consuming an Azure ML service from .NET

#azureml #opensource #azure #dotnet

3 min read

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Okoye Ndidiamaka

Feb 18 '25

How to Accelerate Your Career by Leveraging Written Work, Open Source Projects, and a Killer Portfolio

#opensource #career #personalbranding #professionaldevelopment

4 min read

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