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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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Rizèl Scarlett

Jan 28 '25

What Text Area Popovers Taught Me About Browser APIs

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Shrijal Acharya

Jan 27 '25

Be a 10x AI Developer with these 5 tools in 2025 ✅ 🚀

#productivity #opensource #ai #programming

9 min read

Jan 31 '25

El verdadero impacto de DeepSeek en la IA y el Open Source

#deepseek #spanish #ai #opensource

7 min read

Sumsuzzaman Chowdhury for AWS Community Builders

Jan 30 '25

Building a Robust RAG System: How to Set Up Ollama and Run DeepSeek R1 Locally

#deepseek #ai #rag #opensource

3 min read

Cameron Archer for Tinybird

Jan 31 '25

Analyzing the Dub.co analytics playbook

#webdev #react #database #opensource

23 min read

Jan 31 '25

I made TypeScript Class Chatbot (every TypeScript class types also can do it)

#typescript #opensource #ai #rag

5 min read

Jan 31 '25

Supabase: Open Source Backend-as-a-Service Made Simple

#webdev #database #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Justin3go

Jan 31 '25

The Significance of DeepSeek for the Average Person

#deepseek #openai #opensource #ai

3 min read

José D. Gutiérrez

Jan 31 '25

DeepSeek R1 Will Change the World: Advanced AI Accessible to Everyone

#ai #opensource #openai #programming

8 min read

Faith Ayoola Oni

Jan 31 '25

Getting Started with Daytona: A Beginner’s Guide to Development Environment Management (DEM)

#daytona #webdev #opensource #programming

3 min read

Jan 31 '25

useSyncExternalStore usage in TipTap source code

#opensource #typescript #react #tiptap

3 min read

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Who Won Product Hunt Golden Kitty Awards 2024? Find Out the Best Products!

#product #opensource #ai #community

3 min read

Alvaro Saburido for Storyblok

Jan 31 '25

Announcing Official Storyblok Richtext Support in our Frontend SDKs

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Ajay

Jan 20 '25

Building My GitHub Stats Tool — A Humble Journey of Learning and Sharing

#github #webdev #opensource #programming

2 min read

Lynda Skye

Jan 31 '25

My Portfolio - A Look at My Work and What’s Coming Next!

#programming #opensource #webdev #trans

1 min read

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