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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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Cover image for Context Graphs: Reification not Decision Traces

Jan 9

Context Graphs: Reification not Decision Traces

#ai #programming #opensource #rag

7 min read

freerave

Jan 8

I built an AI that detects your mood while coding (Locally in VS Code) 🧠✨

#vscode #productivity #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Cover image for TanStack Router Setup in Our React SaaS Template - 2026

kiran ravi

Jan 8

TanStack Router Setup in Our React SaaS Template - 2026

#webdev #opensource #programming #javascript

3 min read

Cover image for Stop Writing Glue Code: One Rust Core for Python & Node.js 🦀

KOLOG B Josias Yannick

Jan 8

Stop Writing Glue Code: One Rust Core for Python & Node.js 🦀

#rust #python #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for How I Built a Real-Time Hand Tracking Platform That Runs Entirely in the Browser

Huy Pham

Jan 13

How I Built a Real-Time Hand Tracking Platform That Runs Entirely in the Browser

#computervision #mediapipe #threejs #opensource

3 min read

Jan 8

🐦‍🔥 Weekly Flamehaven Patch Report — this week was a “stack alignment” week.

#devops #opensource #github #observability

2 min read

Jan 8

I’m experimenting with an open-source narrative engine for tabletop RPGs — feedback welcome

#opensource #gamedev #softwareengineering #tools

1 min read

Jan 8

Why Traditional API Gateways Fail at AI Governance (And What Actually Works)

#programming #ai #opensource #devops

5 min read

Jan 13

I made a Meme Creator because I hate watermarks

#opensource #react #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Boy Happy

Jan 9

CandleView-An AI-driven financial time-series data visualization and rendering engine.

#showdev #ai #data #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Build Your Own Local AI Agent (Part 4): The PII Scrubber 🧼

Harish Kotra (he/him)

Jan 8

Build Your Own Local AI Agent (Part 4): The PII Scrubber 🧼

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Building a Collaborative Trello-Style Kanban Board with Next.js, Velt and v0🔥

Astrodevil

Jan 12

Building a Collaborative Trello-Style Kanban Board with Next.js, Velt and v0🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

15 min read

Eray Ates

Jan 9

Useful tools on 1.tools

#webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for QuantDinger: An open-source local quantitative trading platform.

Jan 8

QuantDinger: An open-source local quantitative trading platform.

#programming #opensource #quantitative #ai

5 min read

dhamma watthumpra

Jan 8

Audio Studio AI Pro - Open source audio enhancement with AI-powered noise reduction

#python #opensource #audio #ai

1 min read

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