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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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Jun 11 '25

Blazing-Fast C++ Web Services with `qbm-http`

#cpp #webdev #opensource #api

4 min read

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Jun 11 '25

Meet `qb`: The High-Performance C++17 Actor Framework You've Been Waiting For

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource #github

4 min read

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Jun 11 '25

Unlocking True Parallelism: A Guide to Multi-Core C++ with `qb`

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource #github

4 min read

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Jun 11 '25

Beyond Threads: A Guide to the Actor Model in C++ with `qb`

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource

3 min read

Jul 14 '25

Contributing to a well-known Open Source project

#opensource #programming

1 min read

Jul 14 '25

🚀 Kimi K2 is Here: The 1-Trillion-Parameter, Open-Source Beast That Just Dethroned ChatGPT & Claude—For Free!

#ai #opensource #llm #machinelearning

2 min read

Jul 14 '25

MCP: Conectando LLMs a dados e ferramentas com estilo

#devops #opensource #learning #machinelearning

2 min read

Jul 14 '25

The Opposite of Loneliness

#discuss #webdev #opensource #community

2 min read

Anton Grebenkin

Jul 14 '25

FlashEvents: A Free, Simple Alternative to MediatR Notification Publisher

#csharp #pubsub #dotnet #opensource

4 min read

Julian van Loggerenberg

Jul 14 '25

We build our web apps with vanilla JS — here’s how (and why)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

Jul 12 '25

Implementing App notifications: The FOSS way

#opensource #mobile #android

7 min read

Jul 13 '25

Automate the Boring Stuff! Check Out This Open-Source Tool

#automation #opensource #n8n

5 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 9 '25

DeadLock - JSON Parsing #3

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

1 min read

Jul 13 '25

Automate, Curate, Share: Building an Open Source Reading List

#discuss #opensource #productivity #learning

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 15 '25

Stripe-To-Postgres Sync Engine as standalone Library

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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