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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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Introducing GoCVKit: Zero-Boilerplate Computer Vision in Go

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

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#opensource #vue #nuxt #webdev

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Ayu Adiati

Dec 10

Open Source Engagement: What's Working Now?

#discuss #opensource #community

3 min read

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#webdev #svelte #go #opensource

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Willie

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I built a visual workflow tool for developers with Tauri

#vibecoding #opensource #react #rust

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JJ (yuasa)

Dec 11

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#ai #llm #security #opensource

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Linux in Action: Mastering Crontab for Task Scheduling (RHCSA & DevOps)

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

3 min read

Sara_T

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Deploying Mooncake for LLMs: Installation & Optimization

#ai #opensource #architecture #machinelearning

7 min read

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Dec 11

Convert Figma layers to code in Tailwind CSS with Flowbite MCP

#ai #mcp #tailwindcss #opensource

4 min read

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Dec 11

Svelte Bash: A Lightweight Terminal Component for Svelte 5 (Autoplay, VFS, Themes, Custom Commands)

#svelte #frontend #opensource #webcomponents

2 min read

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TLS-Chameleon

#tooling #security #opensource #python

3 min read

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Coroot

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OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring the Overhead

#observability #opensource #devops #kubernetes

7 min read

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#godot #godotengine #gdscript #opensource

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Rostislav Dugin

Dec 10

Postgresus 2.0: new version of open source PostgreSQL backup tool

#database #postgres #webdev #opensource

12 min read

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Dec 10

I built a Laravel package to stop silent cron failures

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Join the Web NFC Revolution: Contribute to the Open-Source Project at webnfc.org!

#webnfc #nfc #opensource

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Muhammed Rasin O M

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I Built a TUI to Visualize RAG Chunking because chunk_size=1000 is a Lie 📉

#rag #python #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

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Dec 10

I Built a Local-First Secret Manager Because I Don't Trust AI Agents With My .env Files

#showdev #security #development #opensource

4 min read

Dec 11

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#statemanagement #umami #opensource #nextjs

6 min read

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#sre #devops #leadership #opensource

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#antigravity #opensource #tutorial #ai

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Dec 10

Ship Production Apps in Days, Not Months: We Open-Sourced Our Entire Infrastructure Stack

#ai #programming #devex #opensource

6 min read

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SeaORM 2.0: Strongly-Typed Column

#rust #database #programming #opensource

6 min read

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Why 95% of AI Agent Projects Never Reach Production (And How We're Fixing It)

#ai #productivity #opensource #devops

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Dec 10

What is Host network driver?

#docker #devops #opensource #learning

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