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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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Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

Mar 18 '25

On-premise structured extraction with LLM using Ollama

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

6 min read

Ezo Saleh

Mar 17 '25

Semantic Caching for LLM Execution Plans: How We Cut Costs by 90%

#ai #opensource #go #tooling

10 min read

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Luca Argentieri

Mar 17 '25

A new GSAP Nuxt Module

#nuxt #gsap #opensource #animation

2 min read

FaiChou

Feb 12 '25

IntraPaste: A Modern Intranet-First Content Sharing Solution with Next.js and MinIO

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #swiftui

2 min read

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B2B vs. B2C Sales: Key Differences in Marketing Strategies

#beginners #opensource #learning #design

4 min read

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Feb 18 '25

Agents 101: How to build your first AI Agent in 30 minutes!⚡️

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

11 min read

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ArseniyDev

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#webdev #opensource #node

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Amdadul Haque Milon

Mar 17 '25

Forget OpenAI Sora: Meet Open-Sora, the AI Video Tool Everyone's Talking About

#openaisora #opensource #sora #opensora

6 min read

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Oleh

Feb 11 '25

[Open source] Figma plugin for image optimization, favicon generation and background removing.

#opensource #nestjs #react

1 min read

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Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure

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S1E1 - Hands-on With GitHub Models!

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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Paul SANTUS for AWS Community Builders

Mar 17 '25

Your framework sucks when it comes to cloud integration (and I believe AWS should do more about it)

#aws #opensource #framework #programming

3 min read

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Ogi Wemy

Feb 11 '25

GRPO: Teknik Reinforcement Learning yang Membuat DeepSeek sangat Powerfull.

#deepseek #ai #opensource #openai

3 min read

Fatih Felix Yildiz

Feb 11 '25

duplicati for backups

#duplicati #backups #opensource #selfhosted

2 min read

Mar 17 '25

useRouterMisuseWarning in Refine source code

#opensource #react #javascript #hooks

4 min read

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Alex Roor

Mar 6 '25

AI Agents vs. Chatbots: What’s the Difference and Which One Do You Need?

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

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