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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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Jul 3

Prevent SLA Breaches in JIRA with AI: Smart Ticket Prioritization in Python

#opensource #ai #webdev #python

1 min read

Jul 3

Build a Smart SLA Dashboard with Python: Track Breaches, Team Trends & Support KPIs

#python #opensource #datascience #webdev

1 min read

May 30

Curating the Best No-Code Tools of 2025 – Introducing Awesome No-Code Tools

#nocode #opensource #productivity #vibecoding

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 30

🐧Real-World Linux: A Beginner's Journey Through the Command Line

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #cloud

6 min read

Chitransh Soral

May 30

DeadLock: A Smart Way To Manage Your Data Science Projects

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

2 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jul 9

Async First: How 7 Remote Dev Teams Ship Faster Than Office Teams

#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

6 min read

Aniket Raj

Jul 3

Project KARL

#ai #programming #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

Jul 3

🧠 JSONZen: Free Online JSON Formatter Tool Built with Next.js & Tailwind

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

1 min read

Jul 3

How to Fix err_ngrok_6024: The ngrok Splash Page Error (and Why Tunnelmole is Better)

#tunnelmole #webhooks #opensource #devtools

5 min read

May 30

✅ Laravel Cookie Consent – Plug & play GDPR/DSGVO modal

#laravel #php #opensource #plugin

1 min read

Prasanna Indunil

May 30

The Unexpected Open-Source Hub in Sri Lanka’s Hill Country

#opensource #srilanka

1 min read

May 30

Window.performance in nuqs source code.

#window #opensource #nuqs #nextjs

2 min read

suxin2017

May 30

Rust High-Performance Proxy: How lynx-server Reached 100 GitHub Stars

#rust #proxy #github #opensource

3 min read

Walid

May 29

🚀 A Flutter Progress Bar That Shimmers — shimmer_progress_bar is Here!

#flutter #uidesign #dart #opensource

2 min read

Jul 2

Promptfoo x Ollama x DeepSeek R1: Turning My Model Into a Cyber Warzone

#promptfoo #opensource #ollama #redteaming

11 min read

Accio by Alibaba Group

Jul 3

Breaking Down RL2: Why We Built a Ray-Less RL Framework for AI Agents

#machinelearning #deeplearning #python #opensource

1 min read

Evaldas Visockas

May 29

Open-source Quotes webapp

#opensource #api #quotes #webapp

5 min read

Jay

Jul 3

I Built My Own Offline ChatGPT Stack Because the Internet is Temporary and Cats Are Agents of Chaos

#ai #opensource #learning

3 min read

Andriy Ovcharov

Jul 2

Code with Soul: Solaria & Barva Themes for VS Code

#vscode #themes #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jul 2

Better than Claude Code

#github #opensource #rag

1 min read

Shahid Foy

Jul 3

Adding Passkey Login to My Open Source Project n1netails Using Yubico and WebAuthn

#passkeys #security #fullstack #opensource

4 min read

Pichandal

Jun 13

Best Ruby on Rails Hosting Providers in 2025 (Backed by 18 Years of Experience)

#programming #ruby #hostingproviders #opensource

4 min read

Joel Milligan for NanoAPI

May 29

Symbol Extraction - Killing Modular Monoliths

#opensource #symbolextraction

4 min read

Linh Hồ

Jul 2

I've just released a comprehensive document on System Design!

#systemdesign #softwareengineering #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

TerraformMonkey

Jul 2

Stop Breaking OpenTofu: These 5 Errors Are Killing Your Deployment

#terraform #opensource #devops #sre

3 min read

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