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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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jidonglab

Mar 6

What 100 Trending GitHub Projects Tell Us About Where AI Is Actually Going

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

4 min read

Mar 5

How I Designed a Content Distribution Pipeline — 9 Content Types, 20+ Platforms, One Interactive Diagram

#buildinpublic #opensource #contentcreation #automation

5 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 6

Full Auto — What It Feels Like When No One's Watching

#ai #opensource #agents

1 min read

Mobin Valadi for Kurdistan Linux Lab | تاقیگەی لینوکسی کوردستان

Jan 30

Mastering the Linux Software Toolbox: A Professional’s Deep Dive into GNU Coreutils 9.9

#opensource #linux #kll #kurdistan

5 min read

Mar 5

Multimodal Rerankers: The Fix for Object Storage RAG

#rag #ai #programming #opensource

5 min read

Ned C

Mar 4

cursor-doctor v1.10: coverage gaps and README badges

#cursor #ai #opensource #devtools

3 min read

Mar 5

Guardrails deleted, now what?

#security #ai #opensource #go

4 min read

Mar 5

I built an npm package that auto-generates a REST API from your Prisma schema

#node #typescript #prisma #opensource

3 min read

Feb 23

Introducing Slide-CN

#react #opensource #ai #webdev

3 min read

Mar 5

NumWiz: A Complete Number Utility Library for JavaScript & TypeScript — From Arithmetic to Scientific Computing

#typescript #javascript #opensource #math

14 min read

Mar 5

JPA fetch control that doesn't suck

#java #jpa #hibernate #opensource

4 min read

Mar 5

I Built a 1-Line Observability Package for Express & Fastify Zero Dependencies, Full TypeScript

#javascript #node #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Polliog

Feb 3

TimescaleDB Compression: From 150GB to 15GB (90% Reduction, Real Production Data)

#postgres #opensource #programming #database

12 min read

Seryl Lns

Mar 5

Building a Rails Engine #8 — Real-time Progress with ActionCable & Stimulus

#webdev #rails #ruby #opensource

5 min read

Siddhartha Mishra

Mar 5

Introducing SnapbitTools

#webdev #devtools #opensource #privacy

5 min read

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