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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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Dec 27 '24

Building a Simple Email-Open Tracking System for Your Gmail

#node #javascript #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Abhiraj Adhikary

Dec 27 '24

Leveraging Airbyte 🪼 and Motherduck 🦆 for Sentiment Analysis

#airbyte #motherduck #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Dec 27 '24

5 Free Open-Source Tools to Make Your Web Development Easier

#opensource #webdev #development #tooling

3 min read

Abhishek Deshpande

Nov 27 '24

Guide to WP-CLI for WordPress Developers

#wordpress #wpcli #cli #opensource

3 min read

Nov 23 '24

⏳ How I save 10 swe days/year with LLMs

#opensource #llm #ai #codereview

1 min read

Dec 27 '24

hCaptcha, a bot detection tool, usage in Supabase and Chatwoot

#opensource #supabase #hcaptcha

4 min read

Jan 9 '25

16 Best Open Source Software in 2025: From Text Editing to Media Playback - Free Tools Guide🛠🔥🔥

#programming #webdev #opensource #beginners

9 min read

divyesh vekariya

Dec 27 '24

I Found Splito: An Exciting Open-Source Bill-Splitting App

#ios #swiftui #swift #opensource

1 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Nov 24 '24

Releasing GENEREADME

#opensource #github #npm #javascript

4 min read

Toolzr

Dec 26 '24

How Toolzr Was Built

#javascript #productivity #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Dan Shalev for FalkorDB

Dec 26 '24

Graph RAG vs Vector RAG: Solving Gartner's Challenges

#discuss #rag #programming #opensource

2 min read

Gianluca

Dec 26 '24

How to Create Event-Driven Resources in Kubernetes

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

1 min read

Mohammed Alfarra

Dec 26 '24

Streamlining Filtering in NestJS

#typescript #nestjs #filters #opensource

2 min read

Abhay Singh Kathayat

Dec 26 '24

Master Git: A Comprehensive Beginner to Advanced Guide

#git #github #versioncontrol #opensource

4 min read

Diyorbek Sobirov

Dec 26 '24

Library for building NestJS microservices with RabbitMQ 🐇

#nestjs #eventdriven #javascript #opensource

12 min read

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