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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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Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Mastering Test Topic Agents: Advanced Content Planning Strategies for the Technical Web

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

4 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Opportunity, Risk, and Responsible Innovation

#ai #machinelearning #devtools #opensource

6 min read

Kenzo Wada

Oct 23

[Tool] Thanks Stars 🌟 — A Rust CLI that stars all the GitHub repos powering your project

#cli #rust #github #opensource

2 min read

good News

Sep 20

Asbestlint: Risks, Detection, and the Art

#ai #opensource #learning #node

5 min read

n3on

Oct 23

Build Your Own Offline AI Voiceover Tool in Python — No APIs, No Limits

#python #opensource #machinelearning #aivoice

1 min read

Sep 20

codeSearch function in Codebuff codebase.

#opensource #codesearch #codebuff #vscode

3 min read

Dmitrii

Oct 23

Building Reliable Pricing for AI Chatbots

#opensource #typescript #startup #ai

3 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 20

Day 12 of 90 day code script series ,A currency converter...

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Sep 20

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Oct 23

Chord Navigator: Map Your Way to Guitar Soloing Mastery by Arvind Sundararajan

#musictech #guitardev #musiceducation #opensource

2 min read

Volker Schukai for schukai GmbH

Sep 24

Monster Select now supports paginated dropdowns – fully reactive, fully open source

#javascript #webdev #opensource #ux

2 min read

Sep 20

Lets build a full-stack LLM app with Autonomk

#ai #java #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Abhinav

Sep 20

From 0 to 0.1

#programming #opensource

1 min read

Abhinav

Sep 20

Commitment

#opensource #python

2 min read

karmen87

Sep 19

Harnessing Enthusiast for Scalable AI in E-Commerce — A Developer’s Guide

#ai #ecommerce #opensource #developer

4 min read

Mr Vi

Oct 2

Secure SSH Monitoring with Real-time Telegram Alerts

#devops #security #opensource #automation

4 min read

nikosst

Oct 22

Βιβλιοθήκες της Microsoft DynamicExpresso

#opensource #microsoft #dotnet #csharp

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Sudharsan Saravanan

Oct 21

My Hacktoberfest 2025 Journey: Lessons from 14 Accepted PRs

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge #webdev

2 min read

Oct 9

Hacktoberfest 2025 and the JEE-fication of Indian Tech

#hacktoberfest2025 #techculture #opensource #ai

2 min read

Kyle Homen

Sep 19

My experience in building the repository-context-packager tool

#python #opensource #cli #llm

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

Mastering Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Best Practices for Building Robust RAG Systems

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Sep 19

Building share-my-repo: My Journey Contributing to Open Source

#challenge #opensource #python #llm

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 19

How to Rank Data at Scale of Billions in Search Systems with AI, LLMs, and Advanced Ranking Algorithms

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

7 min read

Chris Yaowen Zhang

Oct 23

Announcing Enthusiast 1.4: AI Agents Meet E-commerce Workflows

#ecommerce #opensource #ai

3 min read

Bipin C

Oct 22

# Self-Hosted Push Notifications Part-4

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

11 min read

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