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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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Jesse Williams for Jozu

Apr 18

KitOps: Bringing DevOps Discipline to Machine Learning Artifacts

#programming #opensource #docker #machinelearning

3 min read

Apr 18

Codex CLI – Adding Azure OpenAI to Codex by using… Codex!

#openai #azure #ai #opensource

3 min read

Zhang Wei

Apr 7

Copyleft Licenses: Bridging Open Source with Commercial Sustainability

#copyleft #opensource #commercialsustainability

7 min read

Apr 18

Backstage for the win!

#backstage #opensource #programming #javascript

9 min read

Mar 15

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP): A New Era in AI Integration

#ai #agenticai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Ezo Saleh

Apr 7

Self-hosting LLMs for Production Systems: Solving the Model Quality Challenge

#llm #aiagent #opensource #go

6 min read

Apr 18

Documentation That Builds Itself with Sphinx + Read the Docs

#python #opensource #tooling #automation

1 min read

Apr 18

Soplang 2.0 Is Almost Here — A Somali-first Programming Language Nears Major Release

#programming #soplang #opensource #somalia

3 min read

Dimitrios Desyllas

Apr 7

Mkdotenv: the tool that makes .env manipulation a breeze

#go #programming #opensource

1 min read

Apr 7

How to Generate a GitHub Token for Pushing Repos with Greening

#python #opensource #automation #tooling

2 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

Apr 18

File Permissions and Ownership in Linux

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #devops

3 min read

Carrie

Apr 7

How can I purchase a SafeLine License

#safelinewaf #waf #reverseproxy #opensource

2 min read

Urnem

Mar 15

HiveTorrent – A Web-Based Torrent Client & Search Engine (Looking for Contributors !)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #torrent

1 min read

Apr 18

'useIsMobile' hook in vercel/ai-chatbot source code.

#vercel #opensource #useismobile #matchmobile

2 min read

Mar 15

🚀 Introducing FlowBlog: A Minimalist, Developer-First Blogging Platform

#showdev #nextjs #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Evgenii Perminov

Mar 28

How Cosine Similarity Helped My CLI Decide Where Files Belong (messy-folder-reorganizer-ai)

#llm #rust #cli #opensource

3 min read

Evgenii Perminov

Mar 28

Adding RAG and ML to AI files reorganization CLI (messy-folder-reorganizer-ai)

#llm #cli #opensource #rag

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 18

Detect Spoofing in Real Time Using Just SQL and Open-Source Tools

#tutorial #opensource #learning #datascience

8 min read

Shinetech Software

Mar 19

Enhancing Shopify Dawn Theme with Scrolling Text

#shopify #programming #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Apr 24

What are Golden Paths in Platform Engineering?

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #cloud

4 min read

Sa2shi

Mar 19

Review my Project on GitHub

#discuss #github #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

dimusdim

Mar 14

Multistep AI agentic workflow—with guardrails and no coding required

#ai #llm #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Sarthak Malhotra

Mar 14

Gemini 50% cheaper with Batch API in Curator

#gemini #opensource #programming #github

2 min read

Apr 17

"Enhanced"-end-to-end encryption (E-E2EE) to increase security and privacy

#security #cybersecurity #linux #opensource

5 min read

Apr 17

useSWR usage in vercel/ai-chatbot hooks.

#opensource #vercel #useswr

3 min read

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