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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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rdbhvr-001

Jan 31

Bspwm is powerful - but it's Documentation is a Mess. So I Built a Wiki.

#linux #opensource #documentation #productivity

2 min read

Jame Leo

Feb 4

Decrypting Morse Code in the Browser: How I built a privacy-first audio decoder

#showdev #webdev #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

benngaihk

Feb 13

I Built a Notion-like Editor for Vue 3 with AI, 5 Themes, and Real-time Collaboration — It's 100% Free

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Thousand Miles AI

Mar 6

How DeepSeek R1 Shocked the World (And Why It Matters to You)

#ai #opensource #technology

9 min read

Feb 4

Assimp: Experimental Rust bindings

#showdev #gamedev #opensource #rust

1 min read

Mar 6

🤖 GitPulse — AI-Powered GitLab Code Review Agent (Gemini + Ollama)

#ai #gitlab #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Mar 6

What is Engineer persona?

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #kubernetes

7 min read

bhaskararao arani

Feb 4

Why we stopped stitching SQL + vector databases for AI apps - Answer is sochDB

#ai #rag #vectordatabase #opensource

3 min read

Mar 6

Stop Writing Changelogs by Hand: Automate Them with AI and GitHub Releases

#showdev #opensource #github #devtools

5 min read

Vic N.

Jan 31

How I Built a Tool to Detect AI Cheating in Code Assignments

#vscode #llm #opensource

3 min read

jidonglab

Mar 6

What 100 Trending GitHub Projects Tell Us About Where AI Is Actually Going

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

4 min read

Mar 5

How I Designed a Content Distribution Pipeline — 9 Content Types, 20+ Platforms, One Interactive Diagram

#buildinpublic #opensource #contentcreation #automation

5 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 6

Full Auto — What It Feels Like When No One's Watching

#ai #opensource #agents

1 min read

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Jan 30

Mastering the Linux Software Toolbox: A Professional’s Deep Dive into GNU Coreutils 9.9

#opensource #linux #kll #kurdistan

5 min read

Mar 5

Multimodal Rerankers: The Fix for Object Storage RAG

#rag #ai #programming #opensource

5 min read

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