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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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Feb 10

DeepSeek-R1: Redefining the Reinforcement Learning in AI

#deepseek #opensource #ai #agent

4 min read

Feb 10

I built an AI agent to track my favourite Github repos

#opensource #github #ai #tooling

1 min read

Riccardo Bevoni

Feb 10

Should I Build an Open Core Web App Crawler & Pentesting SaaS?

#programming #security #opensource #github

1 min read

Feb 10

SSH Authentication with OpenPGP

#linux #ubuntu #opensource #ssh

2 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Feb 10

Publish-subscribe messaging with open web services

#pubsub #opensource #node #javascript

3 min read

Bùi Đức Nhật

Feb 14

Ollamazing: Your Free, Open-Source AI Assistant Right in Your Browser

#opensource #webdev #ai #productivity

3 min read

Feb 9

Pulumi W̶a̶s̶m̶/̶R̶u̶s̶t̶ Gestalt devlog #7

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

1 min read

Giovanna

Feb 9

OS tool to debug LLM reasoning patterns with entropy analysis

#opensource #deepseek #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Feb 9

🌎 Building an Empire—One Creative Venture at a Time

#startup #webdev #opensource #development

2 min read

Feb 9

National Hero Award to Open-Source Software Creators: Avro Team Honored

#opensource #dailydev #programming

2 min read

Feb 9

Open Source Software Development: The Power of Collaboration

#opensource #software

7 min read

Gianluca

Mar 4

Click-to-Cluster: GitOps EKS Provisioning

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

7 min read

Feb 13

Navigating Financial Challenges in Open Source Projects

#projectfunding #opensource #financialchallenges #sustainability

2 min read

NocoBase

Mar 4

Markdown Blocks Tips and Tricks

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #tutorial

4 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 18

🎙️We have updated the site and here is what I want to say🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Carrie

Feb 8

Finally, I Found the Best WAF for My Websites!

#webdev #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Carrie

Feb 8

My Journey with SafeLine: A Practical Tool for Web Security

#opensource #cybersecurity #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Feb 13

Mastering Duration Conversions with Duratii

#javascript #npm #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Carrie

Feb 8

SafeLine WAF: A Powerful and User-Friendly Web Application Firewall

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Feb 8

Tech interviews, AI, and Open Source

#opensource #career #ai #beginners

1 min read

Feb 12

Mastering Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #crowdfunding #communitybuilding

3 min read

Feb 12

Fueling Innovation Sustainably: Income Models for Open Source Projects

#opensource #incomemodels #financialsustainability

3 min read

Judy

Mar 3

Track Production Operations Outcome Progression with Conditional NULLs :SQL VS SPL

#sql #programming #devops #opensource

2 min read

Feb 12

Financial Planning for Open Source Projects: Ensuring Longevity and Impact

#projectfunding #opensource #financialplanning #sustainability

2 min read

Zhang Wei

Feb 12

Funding Open Source Software: Ensuring Sustainability in the Digital Age

#blockchain #opensource #funding #sustainability

2 min read

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