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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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Eliana Lam

Nov 29

Connecting the World Through Open Source: Practical Journey of Technology, Community and Global Developer Relations

#discuss #community #opensource

2 min read

Dec 16

Your Diesel Migrations Might Be Ticking Time Bombs

#rust #postgres #database #opensource

6 min read

Nov 23

SteadyFetch: A tiny Android SDK that refuses to let your downloads die

#android #kotlin #opensource #networking

3 min read

Nov 24

Components structure in Umami codebase — Part 1.0

#umami #opensource #components #structure

3 min read

Yash Kumar Gupta

Dec 16

Stop getting lost in the Next.js App Router: I built an open-source visualizer

#nextjs #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Nov 24

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#opensource #networking #apl

1 min read

Eira

Nov 26

I Built a Modern Compiler in Rust: Meet Lamina

#showdev #rust #programming #opensource

3 min read

Dec 16

Building Production-Ready Vector Search for the Browser with Rust and WebAssembly

#rust #webassembly #ai #opensource

5 min read

Sivaprasad Murali

Nov 24

Vargula: Beautiful Terminal Styling Made Simple

#python #opensource #programming #tutorial

5 min read

Sivaprasad Murali

Nov 24

Meet Fylex: The Smartest File Copy Tool You've Never Used (Yet)

#python #opensource #productivity #cli

2 min read

Nov 23

Releasing My First Open-Source CLI Tool: Lessons from Publishing Repository-Context-Packager

#cli #npm #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Yelaman Yelmuratov

Nov 22

Stop Writing Analytics Code. Start Defining It

#flutter #dart #analytics #opensource

3 min read

frustigor

Dec 12

WebCut: Redefining Web-Based Video Editing for Developers with Open-Source Excellence

#webdev #opensource #frontend #videoeditor

6 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Nov 24

Ditch the Cloud: The Open Source AI Tool That Transcribes Interviews Locally

#transcription #ai #opensource #whisper

3 min read

mamba

Nov 24

I Built Universal AI Memory for Developers - Here's What I Learned

#opensource #ai #typescript #productivity

1 min read

Edjere Evelyn Oghenetejiri

Dec 6

I Built an Autonomous AI News Agent with LangGraph (Open Source)

#ai #opensource #python #nextjs

1 min read

Edjere Evelyn Oghenetejiri

Dec 6

I Built an Autonomous AI News Agent with LangGraph (Open Source)

#ai #opensource #langchain #python

1 min read

Mir Mursalin Ankur

Nov 22

Publishing Your First NPM Package: A Real-World Guide That Actually Helps

#node #npm #development #opensource

9 min read

Nov 25

Building SynthDB: A Context-Aware Database Seeder in Rust (and Why I Need Your Help!)

#postgres #testing #rust #opensource

3 min read

Bonnie for CopilotKit

Dec 16

Build with Google's new A2UI Spec: Agent User Interfaces with A2UI + AG-UI

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

16 min read

Matheus

Dec 6

Clean up your NestJS Controller: Remote API Validation inside DTOs 🧼🚀

#typescript #opensource #microservices #nestjs

3 min read

Dec 15

Relica: A Zero-Dependency Query Builder for Go That Won't Break Your Code

#go #database #sql #opensource

9 min read

Nov 22

Release 0.3 — Normalizing Unicode for Event Text

#webdev #opensource #python #programming

1 min read

Kyle Homen

Nov 22

Contributing to Threadbare

#godot #gdscript #opensource

3 min read

Nov 22

The Sacrilegious Coder

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

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