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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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#programming #ai #opensource #learning

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Aug 27

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#backend #opensource #observability

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Aug 27

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#handlebars #opensource

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Agustin V. Startari

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The Hidden Empire of AI Grammar: Power Without Politicians

#ai #devops #react #opensource

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Abdul-Qawi Laniyan

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#web3 #blockchain #tutorial #opensource

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#programming #opensource #telemetry #saas

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#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

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Patryk Zdunowski

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#discuss #programming #opensource

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Olga T.

Sep 29

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#react #frontend #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Muhibbudin Suretno

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#ai #automation #nextjs #opensource

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#webdev #flotiq #headlesscms #opensource

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Sep 8

From 49 to 95: How Prompt Engineering Boosted Gemini MCP Image Generation

#ai #promptengineering #mcp #opensource

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Sep 29

From Zero to 1 B Vectors: the 2025 No-BS Picking Guide

#ai #vectordatabase #opensource #rag

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Sep 29

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#webdev #domain #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Aug 26

logger.ts in Motia.dev codebase.

#logger #opensource #npm

3 min read

Aug 26

`inquirer` package in Puck codebase.

#opensource #npm #cli

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#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

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Marc Anton Dahmen

Sep 27

Why I Prefer to Work Alone on My Personal Projects

#opensource #webdev #softwaredevelopment #sideprojects

2 min read

Sep 29

Introducing SecureCheck: An Open-Source Security Scanner for Web Applications

#security #node #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Joy Biswas

Sep 29

I Self-Hosted n8n and Fixed the Websocket Headache

#opensource #linux #automation

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Anderson Yu-Hong Cai

Sep 29

I’m Joining Hacktoberfest 2025

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 28

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#showdev #react #opensource #webdev

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