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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

Network Namespaces: Isolating VM Networking

#networking #linux #opensource #tooling

6 min read

a1k7

Nov 30

Fighting the macOS File System: How I built a cross-platform organizer in Python

#python #opensource #mac #productivity

1 min read

Cody Churchwell

Dec 1

How I Built a Digital Twin for NASA's $3M Lunar Waste Recycling Challenge

#showdev #programming #opensource #science

4 min read

Dec 1

What is Bridge network driver?

#devops #opensource #docker #cloud

4 min read

Edvin

Dec 3

I built an Open Source Instagram Unfollowers tool (No Login required)

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Shayan

Dec 11

I Built OpenFields ( Free Alternative to ACF for WP )

#showdev #wordpress #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Dec 1

Illuminating Bioprocesses: Dynamic Control with Light

#biology #engineering #automation #opensource

2 min read

Nov 29

Best Open-Source Business Software powered by PHP

#php #opensource #software

8 min read

PEACEBINFLOW for SAGEWORKS AI

Nov 29

Introducing SAGEWORKS AI A Temporal & Network-Native Framework for Next-Generation Computational Systems

#ai #opensource #architecture #webdev

3 min read

Mahmoud Ramadan

Dec 11

💡 Two Lesser-Known Laravel Tricks: numerify & invisible

#php #laravel #opensource #github

1 min read

freerave

Dec 12

Releasing DotScramble v2.0: Windows Installation & Bypassing SmartScreen

#showdev #opensource #python #windows

1 min read

Nov 30

check my HTML,CSS,JS playground

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

DanLin

Dec 1

How I Got Lost in Three Logs — and Still Found the User

#linux #devops #bash #opensource

2 min read

Eliana Lam

Nov 29

Run OSS LLMs on a Single H100 Smarter, Cheaper, Faster

#llm #ai #opensource #aws

5 min read

Azeez Abiodun Solomon

Nov 28

Introducing gitresume, an open-source cli tool for building résumé with LLM support

#resume #llm #ai #opensource

2 min read

Dariusz Newecki

Nov 28

How I Achieved 70% Autonomous Code Generation with Constitutional AI Governance

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #python

4 min read

Yodsavee Supachoktanasap

Nov 28

Stop paying for databases: I built a Type-safe Google Sheets ORM (Prisma-style)

#javascript #typescript #node #opensource

3 min read

Youssef Khouidi

Nov 29

NPM = Wild Wild West: It's Time to Stop the Madness

#supplychainsecurity #javascript #opensource #npm

3 min read

Somedev

Nov 29

Shitshell -- A shell for nerds

#linux #opensource #shell #c

1 min read

Steven Hur

Nov 28

Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone - Plan for the Final Stretch

#python #devjournal #datascience #opensource

2 min read

Tongyi Lab

Nov 28

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#news #ai #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

Rim Choi

Dec 1

Reflections on the Djangonaut Space Journey 🦄

#django #djangonaut #opensource

4 min read

Nov 28

Components structure in Umami codebase - Part 1.4

#umami #opensource #components #structure

3 min read

Melnus

Nov 28

[ShowDev] I Built an Open-Source "Audit Tool" to Detect Government Waste Using Python & Math 🐍📊

#showdev #python #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Ivan Dalmet for BearStudio

Dec 2

Building a Full-Stack App Shouldn’t Feel Like Starting From Zero Every Time

#webdev #react #typescript #opensource

3 min read

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