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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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Aug 10

Reusable Components Across Multiple Sites: From Design System to Deployment 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

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Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Aug 11

How to Install & Run GPT-OSS 20b and 120b GGUF Locally?

#gptoss #openai #opensource #ai

7 min read

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sarim2000

Aug 11

How I Built a Privacy-First Expense Tracker with 100% On-Device AI

#android #kotlin #ai #opensource

2 min read

Aug 11

Building a Real-Time Network Monitor with Python and Scapy

#python #security #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

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NocoBase

Aug 11

6 Open-Source no-code Database Tools Like Airtable and Notion

#opensource #nocode #database #tooling

7 min read

Aug 11

🚨 Introducing GemGuard: Automated Security for Ruby Gems (Scan, SBOM, Typosquat, Auto-Fix)

#ruby #security #devops #opensource

3 min read

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BrunoMagno

Aug 10

Stop Wasting Time on Boilerplate: Start Any Node.js Project in Seconds

#node #resources #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Alok

Aug 10

What Are the Biggest Challenges in Unit Testing and How to Solve Them?

#testing #unittesting #development #opensource

3 min read

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Aug 10

🚀 Create Your Own LLM from Scratch with create-llm

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #npm

2 min read

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Aug 10

Structured Path 2_Become Professionals

#learning #opensource #devops #cloud

1 min read

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Chinmay Shrivastava

Aug 10

How I Achieved 2.9 PyTorch Training Speedup with One Line of Code

#pytorch #machinelearning #python #opensource

5 min read

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Mak Sò

Aug 10

🧠OrKa onboarding: example suite, guided tour, and trace replay

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deeplearning

10 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Aug 10

Cara Mempelajari Earl Bahasa Pemrograman

#programming #opensource #beginners #earl

2 min read

DataPebble

Aug 9

DevLog #1 - ValidateLite: Building a Zero-Config Data Validation Tool

#python #data #opensource #cli

4 min read

DataPebble

Aug 9

DevLog #1 - ValidateLite: Building a Zero-Config Data Validation Tool

#python #data #opensource #cli

4 min read

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Aug 9

Day 2 – Building an AI-Powered Cloud OS

#ai #cloud #opensource #github

1 min read

Ismoiljon Umarov

Aug 9

I put a real-time 3D Engine in my PHP app.

#php #laravel #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Aug 9

debug-logger.ts in Flyde codebase.

#node #opensource #logger #flyde

2 min read

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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Aug 8

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#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

7 min read

Adam Hill

Aug 10

Making Time

#opensource

5 min read

CastyAnimations

Aug 9

Nyrion 2.0 Finally Released!

#python #opensource #github #beginners

1 min read

Akash B

Aug 9

The Latest in AI: What's New in 2025?

#ai #machinelearning #tech #opensource

4 min read

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Peter H. Boling

Aug 9

Continuity: Moving RubyGems to Org

#opensource

1 min read

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RisingWave Labs

Aug 9

RisingWave v2.5: Key Enhancements to the Real-Time Event Streaming Platform

#news #opensource #database #datascience

5 min read

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Aug 8

A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Docs as Code & CI/CD Pipelines

#documentation #cicd #githubactions #opensource

4 min read

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