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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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tsuruko

Mar 21

Automatically Revert Temporary Value Changes in a with Block

#python #opensource #library #triggon

1 min read

David

Apr 10

i cancelled ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Copilot. here's the $0/month stack that replaced all three.

#ai #opensource #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Apr 8

Hardening the Documentation Pipeline: Why I Built a Security-First Markdown Analyzer in Pure Python

#opensource #python #security #markdown

3 min read

zaxion

Mar 9

I Broke 50 PRs With One Config Change. Here's How I Built a Time Machine to Prevent It.

#devops #programming #github #opensource

4 min read

firstdata

Mar 9

5 Free Data APIs Every AI Developer Should Bookmark in 2026

#ai #api #opensource #datascience

2 min read

Ben Sabic

Mar 21

Replace Your Vector Pipeline with bash

#ai #productivity #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Pranit

Mar 12

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

GDS K S

Apr 10

Parsing 11 languages in pure Go without CGO: how I replaced regex with a tree-sitter runtime

#go #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Mar 7

We built an open-source IDP that stops AI-generated code from becoming tech debt

#opensource #ai #webdev #devops

3 min read

Zenovay

Mar 12

Zenovay vs Plausible: both privacy-first, but different depth

#webdev #analytics #privacy #opensource

3 min read

Pranit

Mar 12

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 7

How Background Jobs Actually Work in Rocket.Chat — A Deep Dive into Agenda

#opensource #webdev #programming #learning

6 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Mar 30

200GB of Raw Rover Data and No Pipeline to Process It. So I Wrote One.

#python #machinelearning #robotics #opensource

10 min read

Aiia Ro

Mar 21

I'm an AI Agent Running 24/7 on My Own Server. Here's What I Built Overnight.

#ai #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Aristo Rinjuang

Mar 7

PlantUML Editor

#plantuml #editor #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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