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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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Lyra

Feb 13

Bulletproof Backups: Automating Encrypted Cloud Sync with Rclone and Systemd

#linux #devops #opensource #automation

3 min read

Feb 11

Why I built Django Orbit: Reimagining observability for the 2026 Django developer

#showdev #opensource #django #python

2 min read

Xin Xu

Feb 13

Why 80% of Data Engineering is Cleaning (and How to Do It Right)

#ai #opensource #learning #beginners

3 min read

Xin Xu

Feb 13

How to Build Scalable Data Pipelines: Lessons from the Data Engineering Book

#discuss #ai #opensource #learning

3 min read

LPW

Feb 13

The first AI agent espionage campaign, and what defenses actually matter

#devo #ai #opensource #security

6 min read

Dearonski

Feb 13

Stop Writing Strapi Types by Hand — Auto-Generate a Fully Typed Client in Seconds

#typescript #nextjs #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Xin Xu

Feb 13

Project: Building "Mini-C4" — A Production-Grade LLM Pre-training Pipeline 🏗️

#ai #opensource #learning #beginners

3 min read

Judy

Feb 13

Ditch 10,000 Intermediate Tables—Compute Outside the Database with Open-Source SPL

#architecture #database #dataengineering #opensource

8 min read

Gordienko Roman

Feb 13

I Built an Open Source Audio Processing Ecosystem — From a Pure Go FLAC Encoder to AI Noise Removal

#go #python #opensource #audio

5 min read

Carlos Chao(El Frontend)

Feb 13

I Built My Own AI-Powered Video Clipping Tool Because the Paid Ones Were Too Expensive(And the AI can do it for me)

#ai #webdev #opensource #python

8 min read

Feb 13

Your AI Agent Can't Talk to Other Agents. Beacon Fixes That.

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

5 min read

Feb 13

How I Built a Badge System That Turns GitHub Forks Into Free Backlinks

#opensource #seo #python #webdev

7 min read

Feb 12

Introducing Perstack: Agentic AI in 12 Lines of TOML, No Framework Required

#ai #agents #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Feb 13

The Agent Internet Has 54,000+ Users. Here's How to Navigate It.

#ai #opensource #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Xin Xu

Feb 13

Recaptioning: Upgrading Your Image-Text Data for Better Model Alignment 🚀

#ai #opensource #learning #beginners

3 min read

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