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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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Apr 6

Extreme Ownership of Your Career — the Open Source Way

#extremeownership #opensource #careergrowth #jobhunting

2 min read

Developer Harsh for Composio

May 4

Qwen 3 vs. Deepseek R1: Complete comparison

#ai #opensource #deeplearning #productivity

14 min read

Apr 2

Check out my ethical Hacking tools on my Github.

#ai #python #github #opensource

1 min read

Ion

Apr 30

VibeCodingFlow - AI IDE

#python #ai #opensource

2 min read

May 6

Components structure in '/apps' route in open source ACI.dev platform.

#opensource #aci #mcpserver #nextjs

3 min read

Sharon

May 6

SafeLine WAF: The Open-Source Web Firewall That’s Winning Devs Over

#websecurity #opensource #waf #devsecops

3 min read

Shrijith Venkatramana

May 5

Making Sense of tree-sitter's C API

#programming #opensource #learning #code

7 min read

Apr 1

BackupSync: A Comprehensive Linux Backup Solution for Developers and SysAdmins

#linux #backup #opensource #sysadmin

3 min read

Oleg Klimov for Refact AI

May 5

#1 on SWE-bench lite, achieved fully autonomously by open-source Refact.ai Agent

#programming #ai #llm #opensource

6 min read

Apr 1

New Python Language

#programming #python #productivity #opensource

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 5

📁Mastering cp and mv Commands in Linux (Plus Related cmds)

#linux #cloudwhistler #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Apr 30

Go doesn't believe in frameworks, but teams still need them

#go #opensource #programming #productivity

5 min read

Nikolas

Apr 1

Call for feedback to the dev community

#api #community #testing #opensource

1 min read

May 19

Open Source Spotlight: Innovations and Funding Strategies – A Deep Dive into April 2025 Updates

#opensource #innovation #funding

10 min read

May 19

How I Tried to Save My Google Play Developer Account — and Ended Up Making a App for Crypto

#opensource #reactnative #mobile #android

8 min read

May 5

🚀 Automate Your Releases with gitag: The Ultimate CLI for Semantic Versioning

#webdev #devops #git #opensource

3 min read

Best Codes

May 4

Phi 4 Reasoning Benchmarks, Model Specs, and Comparisons

#ai #opensource #programming #learning

3 min read

Alex Enson

May 5

Scripting Series – Part 7 of 8

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 23

Every Database Will Support Iceberg — Here's Why

#discuss #opensource #news #database

5 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 4

Ansible + Red Hat: The Automation Alliance Powering Next-Gen Enterprise Infrastructure

#cloudwhistler #redhat #ansible #opensource

5 min read

Saahen Sriyan Mishra

May 5

Hover Bug: A Prankware Simulator. Based on the "Butterfly on Desktop" (text only) that will probably never touch the corner.

#cpp #opensource #winapi #programming

6 min read

Apr 5

🚀 Cloud That Makes Sense. Finally.

#cloud #cloudcomputing #qumulus #opensource

1 min read

May 5

Connect your AI to any tool and build reliable AI agents using ACI.dev

#opensource #nextjs #ai #mcp

3 min read

May 5

# PostgreSQL Tutorial: How to Improve PostgreSQL Database Performance

#postgressql #dba #opensource #pgsql

2 min read

May 5

Comparing Optimization Algorithms: Lessons from the Himmelblau Function

#machinelearning #programming #opensource #ai

5 min read

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