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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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Ezo Saleh

Mar 17 '25

Semantic Caching for LLM Execution Plans: How We Cut Costs by 90%

#ai #opensource #go #tooling

10 min read

Luca Argentieri

Mar 17 '25

A new GSAP Nuxt Module

#nuxt #gsap #opensource #animation

2 min read

Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure

Mar 17 '25

S1E1 - Hands-on With GitHub Models!

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Paul SANTUS for AWS Community Builders

Mar 17 '25

Your framework sucks when it comes to cloud integration (and I believe AWS should do more about it)

#aws #opensource #framework #programming

3 min read

Alex Roor

Mar 6 '25

AI Agents vs. Chatbots: What’s the Difference and Which One Do You Need?

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

Prolayjit Biswas

Mar 16 '25

Introduction to Git & GitHub

#github #git #opensource

4 min read

Anuj Dubey

Mar 16 '25

🎉 Breaking News: Your Resume Just Got a Glow-Up! 🎉

#webdev #javascript #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Web4

Mar 16 '25

How to Build Your Own Social Network with Web4 Lite from Linkspreed - An Open Source Facebook Clone @Home

#linkspreed #web4 #opensource #socialnetwork

3 min read

thelastbackspace

Mar 16 '25

TracePerf: A TypeScript-Powered Logging and Performance Tracking Library for Modern JavaScript Applications

#opensource #node #javascript #typescript

4 min read

Kanahiro Iguchi for MIERUNE

Mar 16 '25

Convert GeoJSON to PMTiles with AWS Serverless Pattern

#aws #serverless #opensource #lambda

4 min read

Mar 14 '25

Who is Nishant Rana? An Introductory Blog

#webdev #beginners #opensource #learning

2 min read

BestCodes

Mar 13 '25

Gemma 3: Google's Open Multimodal Model with Long Context & Vision

#news #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Giovanna

Feb 9 '25

OS tool to debug LLM reasoning patterns with entropy analysis

#opensource #deepseek #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Mar 15 '25

Data Structure Operations Time Complexity Guide

#programming #tutorial #interview #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15 '25

30 Days of Python: From Zero to Python Pro

#python #opensource #beginners #programming

2 min read

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