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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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Nov 23

Building GreenGovRAG

#ai #opensource #llm #datascience

6 min read

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Malar Kondappan

Nov 24

Teaching AI to Read Emotions: Science, Challenges, and Innovation Behind Facial Emotion Detection with YOLOv11 on Raspberry Pi

#raspberrypi #computervision #yolo11 #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for Building a Password Strength Analyzer with Entropy and Crack Time for Beginners

Malar Kondappan

Nov 24

Building a Password Strength Analyzer with Entropy and Crack Time for Beginners

#security #webdev #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Sui Gn

Nov 24

Declarative Identity and Emergent Semantic Spaces (Tech Spec)

#webdev #programming #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

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Nolan Lwin

Nov 23

AI in Legacy Code Modernization

#ai #opensource #coding #agents

3 min read

Cover image for Deep Dive: Building Real-Time Facial Emotion Detection on Raspberry Pi with YOLOv11

Malar Kondappan

Nov 24

Deep Dive: Building Real-Time Facial Emotion Detection on Raspberry Pi with YOLOv11

#machinelearning #raspberrypi #python #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for Announcing SvelteKit OG v4: An alternative to @vercel/og for sveltekit

Nov 24

Announcing SvelteKit OG v4: An alternative to @vercel/og for sveltekit

#webdev #svelte #sveltekit #opensource

4 min read

Steve

Nov 23

The Story of Archi: an Archimate Tool; The Pedantic Defense: How 'Legal' Gatekeeping Violates the Spirit of Open Source

#opensource #licensing #mitlicense #ethics

3 min read

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PikaPods

Nov 24

🧐 Cyber Monday Reality Check for Devs

#opensource #smartspending #webdev

1 min read

Cover image for Building Tornago: A Go Library for Tor Integration Born from Fraud Prevention Needs

nchika

Nov 23

Building Tornago: A Go Library for Tor Integration Born from Fraud Prevention Needs

#showdev #opensource #go #tor

8 min read

Nov 23

OSD600: Release 0.3

#learning #github #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for SteadyFetch: A tiny Android SDK that refuses to let your downloads die

Nov 23

SteadyFetch: A tiny Android SDK that refuses to let your downloads die

#android #kotlin #opensource #networking

3 min read

ElshadHu

Nov 23

Open Source: My Path to Better Code

#learning #typescript #opensource #react

3 min read

Nov 24

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#opensource #networking #apl

1 min read

Nov 23

Releasing My First Open-Source CLI Tool: Lessons from Publishing Repository-Context-Packager

#cli #npm #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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Yelaman Yelmuratov

Nov 22

Stop Writing Analytics Code. Start Defining It

#flutter #dart #analytics #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Camunda Health Monitor v2.0 Open Source: AI-Powered Intelligence

Nov 22

Camunda Health Monitor v2.0 Open Source: AI-Powered Intelligence

#camunda #monitoring #opensource #devops

3 min read

Cover image for How We Built True Parallel Agents With Git Worktrees

GetPochi

Nov 24

How We Built True Parallel Agents With Git Worktrees

#ai #agents #programming #opensource

3 min read

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Mak Sò

Nov 23

Don Quixote Of Orchestration: Building For Problems No One Sees Yet

#ai #opensource #programming #resources

6 min read

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mamba

Nov 24

I Built Universal AI Memory for Developers - Here's What I Learned

#opensource #ai #typescript #productivity

1 min read

Cover image for I built GitPulse — A tool to help you find beginner-friendly open-source projects

Nov 22

I built GitPulse — A tool to help you find beginner-friendly open-source projects

#programming #productivity #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Mir Mursalin Ankur

Nov 22

Publishing Your First NPM Package: A Real-World Guide That Actually Helps

#node #npm #development #opensource

9 min read

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Nov 22

I built a tiny autosave engine for web forms

#javascript #webdev #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Nov 22

Release 0.3 — Normalizing Unicode for Event Text

#webdev #opensource #python #programming

1 min read

Kyle Homen

Nov 22

Contributing to Threadbare

#godot #gdscript #opensource

3 min read

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