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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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Lahla

Jan 15

Tesseract OCR

#opensource #privacy #productivity #tooling

3 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jan 15

SeaTunnel CDC Explained: A Layman’s Guide

#programming #apacheseatunnel #opensource #bigdata

7 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jan 15

Deep Dive into SeaTunnel Metadata Caching: The Underlying Logic Supporting Tens of Thousands of Concurrent Tasks

#programming #apacheseatunnel #bigdata #opensource

5 min read

Jhello

Jan 15

I just made CodeAnimator - an open source tool that turns code files into animated videos for teaching with.

#webdev #programming #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Jan 15

Stop paying for webhook debuggers. I built a better one (Open Source).

#webhooks #opensource #javascript #tooling

4 min read

Evan Lin

Jan 15

[TIL][Go] Code Reading Tips for etcd: Optimizing Segregated Hashmaps

#algorithms #architecture #go #opensource

2 min read

Nikita hrx

Jan 15

What Is Coolify? Understanding How It Works and Why It Improves App Performance

#devops #opensource #performance #tooling

2 min read

Jan 15

I Built a Small Open-Source Extension to Stop Infinite Scrolling on X

#showdev #opensource #productivity #tooling

1 min read

Patrick Di Fazio

Jan 15

Krawl: A modern Honeypot and Deception server 🍯

#security #selfhosted #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jan 15

How We Index 342 Million Chess Positions for Millisecond Lookups

#go #lichess #opensource #database

2 min read

Pham Thao

Jan 15

Why I Built a Cart Package That Refuses to Store Prices

#opensource #laravel #php

4 min read

Evan Lin

Jan 15

FOSDEM 2020: Advanced Debugging Techniques for Go Code

#go #opensource #tooling

2 min read

German “German”

Jan 19

I built a free HTML to PDF library for .NET because existing options frustrated me

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #pdf

1 min read

Amine Ace

Jan 14

Stop Uploading Your Files: How I Built a 100% Client-Side Image Converter with React & Vite

#react #webdev #opensource #privacy

3 min read

pelavo

Jan 14

Skip Repetitive Stack Setup (Database, Auth, UI) and Start Coding Immediately

#cli #webdev #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Franklin Strube

Jan 19

Is Omarchy Any Good...?

#omarchy #linux #archlinux #opensource

2 min read

Jan 14

Beyond the `go` Keyword: The Secret Life of Goroutines & The Go Runtime

#go #opensource #webdev #systems

8 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Jan 18

How UX Designers Can Contribute to OpenMRS: A Beginner’s Guide

#webdev #opensource #contributorswanted #health

3 min read

Rahul Prajapati

Jan 14

I Built a High-Performance Trading Chart Engine in Flutter (and Open-Sourced It)

#flutter #opensource #performance #dart

2 min read

Jan 14

🐉 Leviathan UI v1.0.0 — Interfaces gráficas modernas en Python

#python #pypi #opensource #gui

4 min read

Jan 15

I Built a Geopolitical "War Room" While High on Morphine (and Then Actually Shipped It)

#showdev #ai #opensource #nextjs

7 min read

freerave

Jan 14

I built a VS Code extension that reads your project's mind

#vscode #productivity #opensource #dotcommand

2 min read

Brent G Saucedo

Jan 14

Is Meta Becoming the 4th Cloud Giant? (The Answer is Complicated)

#cloud #ai #meta #opensource

3 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Jan 14

How to Build Presto from Source - OSS Contribution Guide (Step by Step Tutorial)

#opensource #presto #dataengineering #dataanalytics

7 min read

Marco

Jan 14

I've open-sourced my document management system (built with Go, htmx and SQLite)

#opensource #go #webdev #saas

3 min read

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