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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 Using ARM-based GitHub Actions Runners for Workflows

Jan 29 '25

Using ARM-based GitHub Actions Runners for Workflows

#opensource #github #cicd #devops

2 min read

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Jan 29 '25

🚀🛠Boost Your Regex Game with Regex Vault: A Library for Developers

#regex #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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aagamezl

Jan 18 '25

Introducing Shest: A Test Runner for Bash Scripts

#bash #testing #devtools #opensource

2 min read

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Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 29 '25

🔨 Building Multi-Node Django Systems for Time Series Data [Free Course]

#tutorial #opensource #python #webdev

3 min read

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arjun

Jan 29 '25

DeepSeek’s Optimization Strategy: Redefining AI Cost and Efficiency

#ai #deepseek #opensource #openai

4 min read

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Marek Elmayan for Theodo

Jan 29 '25

How to configure CORS for Next.js

#webdev #security #nextjs #opensource

7 min read

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Jan 29 '25

Using DeepSeek R1 on an AMD GPU

#deepseek #ai #opensource #chatgpt

3 min read

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Jesse Williams for Jozu

Jan 28 '25

Accelerating ML Development with DevPods and ModelKits

#programming #ai #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

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Peter Vivo

Jan 27 '25

Stolen Content by AI

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Ben Witt

Jan 29 '25

Asynchronous HTTP Requests – Explained Simply

#devto #developer #opensource #coding

3 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 3 '25

Semantic Search With Ollama and PostgreSQL in 10 Minutes

#tutorial #ai #opensource #postgres

9 min read

Jan 18 '25

Build the Future with the Auto Horizon Developer Challenge

#developers #ai #web3 #opensource

2 min read

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Jan 29 '25

EngCode: The English-Like Programming Language for Everyone

#programming #beginners #opensource #engcode

1 min read

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Satoshi S. for Web Dev Path

Jan 28 '25

Start contributing to a Popular Open Source Project

#python #opensource #taipy #beginners

4 min read

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Jan 21 '25

How Programming Will Look In the Future?

#discuss #programming #opensource #news

2 min read

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