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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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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

kanishkrawatt for Requestly

Jan 31 '25

Top 5 Open-Source API Clients in 2025

#apiclient #opensource #api #testing

4 min read

Astrodevil

Jan 22 '25

5 Must-Know Open-Source Tools for DevOps and MLOps Developers🔥🚀

#devops #opensource #machinelearning #programming

8 min read

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 28 '24

Generate an OpenAPI From Your Database

#apigateway #api #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Jan 30 '25

Stream video with open web services

#video #javascript #streaming #opensource

2 min read

Hugo Lemos da Silva

Jan 30 '25

Segurança em Contêineres: Como Melange e apko Ajudam a Proteger Seus Projetos e Criar Imagens Minimalistas

#devops #docker #security #opensource

12 min read

Dec 27 '24

Global Day of Coderetreat 2024!

#romania #bucharest #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Lee Reilly for GitHub

Jan 24 '25

Showcase your open source project at SCALE 🐧 Pasadena, CA · March 6-9, 2025

#github #linux #opensource

2 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jan 30 '25

Build a Browser Use Agent with DeepSeek: A Step-by-Step Guide

#ai #deepseek #opensource #nlp

9 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jan 27 '25

A Step-by-Step Guide to Install DeepSeek-R1 Locally with Ollama, vLLM or Transformers

#ai #nlp #openai #opensource

10 min read

Luis Fernando De Pombo

Jan 30 '25

Built a ChatGPT-like app on Firestore with no backend/functions at ~1k LOC

#beginners #programming #opensource #flutter

1 min read

Jan 29 '25

Celebrating The Top Search-Tech Voices for 2025 🏆

#programming #devops #opensource #community

4 min read

Jan 30 '25

How to check if a component is a forward ref component in React?

#opensource #react #typescript #forwardref

2 min read

Sayed Ali Alkamel

Jan 28 '25

DeepSeek and the Power of Mixture of Experts (MoE)

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #deeplearning

6 min read

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