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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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#webdev #programming #opensource #frontend

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#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

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#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

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#release #gha #opensource

4 min read

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#ai #opensource #machinelearning #chatgpt

6 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

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#database #postgres #devops #opensource

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What is CouchDB? #1: Introduction

#database #couchdb #opensource #offline

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mksunny1

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Why I Built Marksafe: A Safer, More Flexible Alternative to Markdown

#discuss #javascript #opensource

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Neurolov

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#news #opensource #beginners #devchallenge

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Sunil Kumar Dash for Composio

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Notes on Llama 4: The Hits, the Misses, and the Disasters

#ai #beginners #productivity #opensource

11 min read

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Porting is-odd npm to OCaml using remelange compiler

#javascript #ocaml #npm #opensource

2 min read

Vasudevan Tamilarasan

Apr 1 '25

My starting point for Linux

#linux #opensource #developer #debian

3 min read

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#webdev #react #opensource #design

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Introduction to Key-Value Stores

#programming #go #opensource #tutorial

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Vladislav Guzey

Apr 1 '25

Building with Gemma 3: A Developer's Guide to Google's AI Innovation

#ai #google #opensource #tooling

7 min read

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