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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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Calum

Jul 19

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752936

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Aug 13

Alias Alchemy - Instant Bash Setup!

#bash #linux #opensource #kubernetes

2 min read

Aug 17

How Intlayer helps to speed up i18n

#internationalization #opensource #react #webdev

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Jul 14

Turn Any File Into a Art Masterpiece!

#programming #algorithms #opensource #learning

2 min read

arthur

Jul 14

AiHint Standard - Cryptographic Trust Verification for AI Agents

#ai #llm #security #opensource

4 min read

Jul 15

How We Built a Voice AI Assistant That Can Handle 1,000 Calls at Once

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Noorsimar Singh

Jul 14

G2.com Scraping: Handling Anti-Bot Measures with Scrapy

#webscraping #opensource #python #datascience

4 min read

Sami Ammar

Aug 17

# Why Every Developer Should Use GitHub

#github #programming #opensource #developers

2 min read

Mike

Jul 14

10 (or so) Things You’ll Love about RestlessIDE

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Narayandas Akhil Achary

Jul 14

🎥 Introducing Dyan: A Self-Hosted Visual REST API Builder (Demo Inside)

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Jul 14

Revolutionizing Unstructured Data: Instill Core – Your All-in-One AI Solution

#etl #ai #llm #opensource

3 min read

Jul 14

The Hidden Challenge of Disposable Email Detection (And How You Can Help)

#opensource #programming #beginners #javascript

2 min read

Aug 10

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

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

PSBigBig

Aug 17

WFGY 2.0 — An Open-Source 7-Step Reasoning Engine You Can Paste Anywhere (Eye-Visible Results)

#webdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

project-laguardia

Jul 14

LuCI on MGMT - Day 6

#opensource #go #networking #firewall

2 min read

Jul 14

Started Learning System Design Day 1.

#systemdesign #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Aug 6

How to Install & Run OpenAI GPT-OSS Locally?

#openai #opensource #gptoss #ai

16 min read

DocuBits

Aug 17

Just launched 🚀 Free OCR API for developers – FreeXtract

#webdev #programming #opensource #api

1 min read

Hernan Chilabert

Aug 14

I'm Building an AI Agent to Write My Unit Tests

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Aug 6

OpenAI’s GPT-OSS Models vs Claude 4.1: How Open-Weight and Closed-Source AI Are Redefining the Future

#ai #opensource #openai #anthropic

4 min read

shashank agarwal

Jul 14

🚀 Building the Enterprise-Grade AI Evaluation Platform the Industry Needs

#help #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jul 15

title: "Apresento a Flame: uma linguagem para modelar risco ambiental e incêndios"

#programming #opensource #firemodeling #flamelang

2 min read

Julian van Loggerenberg

Jul 14

We build our web apps with vanilla JS — here’s how (and why)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

Alexey Gavrilov

Aug 16

Record Companion: Simple Builder Pattern for Java Records

#java #programming #opensource #validation

5 min read

Luca

Jul 27

I’m trying to see if my GitHub portfolio can get any visibility

#showdev #github #opensource #portfolio

1 min read

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