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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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Vadim

Aug 5

Building a Personal AI Info Pipeline: Semantic Monitoring with YAML and GPT

#opensource #python #ai #flask

2 min read

Jingsi Lu for MobilityData

Sep 8

Spotlight on Accessibility: Mapping Paratransit and ADA-Friendly Stops with Mobility Database

#gtfs #gbfs #opensource

2 min read

Chilarai

Sep 19

Make Your API AI-Ready: Try Swytchcode's Free Playground

#api #tooling #ai #opensource

2 min read

Sep 8

Understanding System Scaling With Kubernetes For Beginners

#kubernetes #cloud #programming #opensource

5 min read

Jayant Harilela

Aug 5

Unlock the Power of AI: Essential Protocols for Seamless Digital Interactions

#google #anthropic #opensource #emailclients

10 min read

Aug 5

Declutter your TypeScript project using Knip.

#flyde #opensource #typescript

2 min read

NeaByteLab

Aug 5

🔐 Building Quantum-Resistant ZKP: A Developer's Journey into Post-Quantum Cryptography

#opensource #quantumcomputing #cryptography #typescript

5 min read

Slavik

Aug 5

Building a parenting app with UDP

#mobile #network #java #opensource

5 min read

Jayant Harilela

Aug 5

Galileo Unleashed: How NASA's Open-Source AI is Transforming Earth Observation

#nasa #opensource #remotesensing #multimodalmodel

9 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Aug 5

How Legal Language Loses Responsibility When It Becomes Executable

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Aug 5

Predictive Testimony: When AI Reports Speak Like Witnesses

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

Aug 5

🌱 From .NET Developer to Building My Own Programming Language in Tamil

#python #ai #opensource #tamil

2 min read

Aug 9

GSoC Week 9: Bugs, Collaboration & a Few Funny Glitches

#opensource #flutter #gsoc #programming

3 min read

Alexander

Aug 6

I built Pogodnik – a .NET MAUI Weather App Template with Notes & Calendar Support

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #maui

1 min read

Jay

Sep 4

Set Up Your Own Personal AI Stack: Summarized

#showdev #ai #opensource #linux

3 min read

Sep 5

Why I Chose SvelteKit for My PDF Annotation App?

#svelte #webdev #opensource #programming

2 min read

Aug 5

await time.sleep(ms) in Node.js — Finally!

#node #javascript #npm #opensource

2 min read

Aug 4

Improving an "Awesome X" List

#opensource #ai #github #mcp

4 min read

vketteni

Aug 4

Breaking Ecosystem Lock-in in Google's Gemini CLI

#gemini #opensource #anthropic #openai

6 min read

ByteKnight

Aug 4

RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop Solution

#rustdesk #remotedesktop #opensource

1 min read

Kazu

Aug 9

Inside gomarklint: Building a High-Performance Markdown Linter in Go

#go #markdown #opensource

2 min read

Sep 7

Kuzur Programming Language

#newlanguage #kuzur #developers #opensource

1 min read

Sep 7

The Ultimate TypeScript Learning Resource Stack That Every Developer Needs

#typescript #webdev #opensource #learning

5 min read

Sep 5

[AutoBE Hackathon] AI Chatbot generating Backend Application with AI Compilers ($6,400 Prize Pool)

#hackathon #typescript #opensource #ai

6 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Aug 4

How to Install & Run Qwen3-Thinking

#qwen #ai #coding #opensource

7 min read

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