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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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Lymah

Mar 2

Week 14 Recap of #100DaysOfCode

#buildinpublic #programming #100daysofcode #opensource

1 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 28

It's VOTING TIME! 🥳. Here are a few things to keep in mind for this phase.

#programming #ai #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Feb 28

Backend Platforms Roundup 2025

#opensource #cloud #programming #backend

4 min read

Mar 2

StackSync: The Open-Source Tech Stack Explorer

#webdev #opensource #javascript #programming

3 min read

Eww Games

Jan 27

The Democratizing Power of MIT-Licensed AI: A New Era of Open Innovation

#ai #opensource #api #deepseek

2 min read

Abijith B

Mar 1

Adobe’s Monopoly on PDFs: The Innovation Bottleneck and the Need for Open-Source Alternatives

#opensource #pdf #linux #adobe

7 min read

Jisan Mia

Mar 1

30+ String Manipulation Techniques in JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

11 min read

miinhho

Mar 1

Why Real-World Performance is Different from Benchmark Numbers

#performance #opensource #javascript #node

2 min read

Team TigerData for TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 18

🚀 pgai Vectorizer: SQLAlchemy and LiteLLM Make Vector Search Simple

#ai #vectordatabase #postgres #opensource

3 min read

Nuanced

Mar 1

I built RIVAL: An open-source tool to visually compare AI models

#ai #opensource #nextjs #programming

1 min read

Max Zhuk

Mar 1

Rust Web Start Kit — Jump-Start Your Web Development with Rust

#webdev #rust #opensource #api

2 min read

Jan 30

A Discussion Group in Your Browser

#webdev #ai #opensource #browser

4 min read

Fernando Guerra

Feb 28

8 Open-Source Tools to Bootstrap Your SaaS 🚀

#opensource #python #react #bootstrap

3 min read

Rupesh Mangalam

Mar 1

My Machine Learning Journey: From Beginner to Open-Source Contributor

#machinelearning #opensource #hackathon #learning

2 min read

AG2 Blogger for AG2

Feb 28

Get Communicating with Discord, Slack, and Telegram

#opensource #discord #agents #telegram

9 min read

Andy

Mar 1

What is Deepseek 3FS

#ai #opensource

2 min read

Feb 18

Top 10 Best AI Software Development Agents in 2025

#ai #webdev #lowcode #opensource

13 min read

Astrodevil

Feb 27

How to Make Your Postgres Database 100x Faster and 50% Cheaper with Readyset Cloud🚀⚡💵

#opensource #database #cloud #webdev

6 min read

Ilbets

Feb 8

Game Night Just Got a Digital Upgrade: The Deck

#gamedev #flutter #mobile #opensource

6 min read

Prajwol Adhikari

Mar 1

Dive into AI Fun: Running DeepSeek-R1 on Docker Container on Ubuntu

#deepseek #docker #opensource #ai

2 min read

Jan 26

The Last Template Before AGI

#fastapi #microservices #opensource #ai

2 min read

Team TigerData for TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 28

8 Postgres Extensions You Need to Know

#opensource #postgres #database #productivity

6 min read

Vaibhav sisodiya

Jan 30

Don't use DeepSeek R1 before this!

#ai #opensource #learning

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 28

AWS open source newsletter, #207

#opensource #aws

22 min read

Code Forge Temple

Feb 28

ScribePal - An Open Source Browser Extension for Private AI Chat Using Local Ollama Models

#opensource #ai #javascript #privacy

2 min read

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