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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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Sep 19

I created a small 2D game about an ant :)

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

Trent Best

Sep 19

A FSM Challenge for the c#/DotNet Dev Community

#csharp #dotnet #fsm #opensource

2 min read

Misha Zaslavskiy

Sep 19

To buy or to build - that is the question for a CAD manager

#cad #semiconductors #opensource

4 min read

Sep 19

MySigMail v2 — Open-Source Email Signature Generator

#vue #opensource #webdev

2 min read

karmen87

Sep 19

Harnessing Enthusiast for Scalable AI in E-Commerce — A Developer’s Guide

#ai #ecommerce #opensource #developer

4 min read

Carlos Mendible

Sep 19

Azure Quick Review (azqr) v2.9.0 is out!

#azure #azqr #devops #opensource

1 min read

Anup Singh

Sep 19

Launching My First Open-Source Project: A React Editor

#react #javascript #npm #opensource

1 min read

Kyle Homen

Sep 19

My experience in building the repository-context-packager tool

#python #opensource #cli #llm

2 min read

Nikolaos Sagiadinos

Sep 19

The Open-Source Revolution in Digital Signage

#digitalsignage #opensource #software #development

1 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

Mastering Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Best Practices for Building Robust RAG Systems

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Sep 19

Building share-my-repo: My Journey Contributing to Open Source

#challenge #opensource #python #llm

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Sep 19

Project of the Week: Dify

#machinelearning #opensource #ai #devops

3 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

How to Validate RAG-based Chatbot Outputs: Frameworks, Tools, and Best Practices for Reliable Conversational AI

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

How to Rank Data at Scale of Billions in Search Systems with AI, LLMs, and Advanced Ranking Algorithms

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

7 min read

Sep 19

`runTerminalCommand` function in Codebuff codebase.

#terminal #cli #opensource #codebuff

3 min read

Mohammed Said Belaid

Sep 18

PlugBrain: The open-source app helping you take back control of your screen time

#opensource #androiddev #productivity #kotlin

2 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Sep 19

The Hidden Empire of AI Grammar: Power Without Politicians

#ai #devops #react #opensource

3 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

The Trade-off Playbook: Engineering High-Impact Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems

#ai #devtools #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

CloudDefense.AI

Sep 19

Shai-Hulud: a self-propagating npm worm hits @ctrl/tinycolor and dozens more packages

#news #opensource #npm #security

2 min read

cupped

Sep 19

New lightweight and open-source Minecraft Launcher for Linux

#python #programming #minecraft #opensource

1 min read

WH yang

Sep 18

Repo Dump CLI tool

#opensource #llm #cli #typescript

1 min read

Havilah Academy

Sep 19

PlotSenseAI Hackathon 2025 begins today 🚀🚀

#ai #machinelearning #hackathon #opensource

1 min read

Sep 19

My experience with CLI tool

#llm #typescript #opensource #cli

2 min read

Sep 19

Modernize Open Source Bootstrap 5 Admin Dashboard Template

#webdev #bootstrap #opensource #bestofdev

4 min read

Samyak

Sep 18

Introducing: Clips Open-Source AI Clipping Tool for Every Creator

#showdev #tooling #ai #opensource

3 min read

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