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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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Dec 18

DEVOPS PERIODIC TABLE AND RULES HT: HASHICORP TERRAFORM

#showdev #devops #opensource #developer

1 min read

Minimus

Dec 17

New Vulnerabilities in runC Allow Container Escape

#security #opensource #devops #kubernetes

4 min read

Dec 18

Testing in Umami codebase - Part 1.3

#umami #opensource #testing #architecture

3 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 17

Day 27 of improving my Data Science skills

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Dec 18

Carific.ai: Building a Type-Safe Profile Editor with TanStack Form, Zod, and Live PDF Preview

#typescript #react #nextjs #opensource

12 min read

Soumyajit Mondal for Apertre 3.0

Dec 17

Apertre 3.0: A 30-Day Open-Source Journey for Developers 🚀

#webdev #programming #opensource #github

1 min read

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Dec 17

Control Windows Volume With Mouse Side Buttons

#showdev #microsoft #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Acontext

Dec 18

Acontext: Where Context Data Becomes the Foundation for Agent Learning

#ai #agents #opensource #programming

5 min read

Arshvir

Dec 17

I built a privacy-first IP API and it's free.

#discuss #programming #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Dec 17

The Long Echo Toolkit: Preserving Your Digital Life

#python #cli #opensource #sqlite

3 min read

Dec 17

Crier: Cross-Post Your Content Everywhere

#python #cli #automation #opensource

3 min read

Dec 17

What is Macvlan network driver?

#docker #opensource #devops #development

8 min read

Dec 17

A new PHP8+ Unit Testing Framework called MicroUnit

#webdev #php #testing #opensource

2 min read

Abdessamad Ammi

Dec 17

Por Qué el 47% de Empresas Están Migrando de GPT-4 a Open Source LLMs en 2025

#machinelearning #llm #opensource #mlops

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 18

AWS open source newsletter, #217

#opensource #aws

23 min read

Dec 17

Building 10 Python Packages for Enterprise FastAPI Apps: What I Learned

#python #fastapi #opensource #azure

3 min read

Labdev

Dec 16

PyTorch Models Are Executables: Why I Built a Scanner to Stop "Pickle Bombs"

#security #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

Erica

Dec 16

AI Engineering: Advent of AI with goose Day 9

#ai #goose #adventofai #opensource

4 min read

rokoss21

Dec 16

Token Box Model

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Coroot

Dec 16

Chaos testing a Postgres cluster managed by CloudNativePG

#devops #postgres #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Priya dharshini

Dec 17

How to Choose the Right Tech Stack for Your Software Project

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

Puffer

Dec 16

AI Twin — Voice Cloning with Text-to-Speech

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Fabricio Quagliariello

Dec 16

The OptiPFair Series #1: Forging the Future with Small Models — An Architectural Analysis with Pere Martra

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

8 min read

TailAdmin

Dec 18

TailAdmin Laravel: Laravel Admin Dashboard Built with Tailwind and Blade

#laravel #opensource #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Dec 18

Open-Source AI Assistants for Your Product — A Deep Dive into Vezlo’s Architecture

#opensource #vezlo #ai #semanticsearch

4 min read

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