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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 29

Need Technical Co-Founder Tonight - AI Companion App Already Built

#ai #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

Dec 2

Exploring native Browser/Web APIs

#webdev #javascript #opensource #api

1 min read

DASWU

Nov 28

NAS vs. Object Storage vs. JuiceFS: Storage Selection of Billion-Dollar Quantitative Firms

#opensource

12 min read

DD

Nov 28

Deploying weserv/images with Docker

#tutorial #devops #docker #opensource

1 min read

Eliana Lam

Nov 29

Building Streaming Iceberg Tables for Real-Time Logistics Analytics

#analytics #dataengineering #architecture #opensource

4 min read

Nov 29

Delhi Climate Visualization using KitikiPlot

#ai #datascience #opensource #python

1 min read

Nov 28

I Analyzed My Browser Cookies - 1,572 Trackers Found. Here's What They Know About Me.

#privacy #python #opensource #security

6 min read

Feras E. S. Alawadi

Nov 27

I Built the Linux of Agent Protocols: Why MXP is 37x Faster Than JSON

#ai #agents #rust #opensource

1 min read

Kevin

Nov 28

Open-Source Tools for Interfacing with Ophthalmic Equipment Hardware

#api #iot #opensource #tooling

3 min read

ashfromsky

Nov 28

Building a Type-Safe In-Memory DB

#python #database #opensource #fastapi

2 min read

Nov 28

🚀 From Scattered Scripts to Product Hunt Launch: My Journey Building the Professional Automation Toolkit

#python #automation #opensource #fastapi

2 min read

Nov 30

🕵️‍♂️ DestroyScammers: De-anonymizing Crypto Thieves with Open Source Intelligence

#opensource #cybersecurity #osint #blockchain

5 min read

Tajudeen Abdulgafar

Nov 30

Taking Repo Context Packager to the Next Level

#llm #devops #opensource #tooling

3 min read

NocoBase

Nov 28

The 8 Best Google Sheets Alternatives (Specs & Pricing)

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #googlesheets

16 min read

mamba

Nov 28

Getting Devs to Change Their Workflow Requires Being 10x Better, Not 2x Better

#ai #productivity #opensource #typescript

6 min read

Eliana Lam

Nov 27

Disaster and Emergency Response with TAK and AWS

#aws #community #opensource

3 min read

It's Meee!

Nov 28

I got tired of 2GB Docker images for simple AI chats, so I built a single-file PHP interface.

#showdev #php #ai #opensource

1 min read

Nov 28

Maintenance Release 0.55.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#opensource #githubaction #release

2 min read

NocoBase

Nov 27

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

13 min read

iparesh18

Nov 26

I Turned LangChain JS Into a Simple Learning Path — Free & Open Source

#langchain #opensource #ai #webdev

1 min read

Nov 27

Components structure in Umami codebase - Part 1.3

#umami #opensource #components #structure

3 min read

Dec 9

MCP Wins, But the War Just Started: Why Standardization Won't Save Us from Lock-in

#discuss #ai #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Nov 27

Unlocking Algorithmic Elegance: AI's Blind Spot and the Power of Evolutionary Mappings by Arvind Sundararajan

#ai #algorithms #opensource #research

2 min read

SATINATH MONDAL

Dec 9

envguard: A Better Way to Validate Environment Variables in Node.js

#typescript #node #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Wiz

Dec 9

I Got Tired of JavaScript's Date API So I Fixed It

#javascript #typescript #npm #opensource

4 min read

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