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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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Juraj for Cyclops UI

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How Platform Engineering Helps You Move Like a Startup Again

#platformengineering #kubernetes #devops #opensource

4 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Mar 18 '25

Build a Production-Ready SaaS Application in TypeScript

#webdev #javascript #opensource #node

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Simplr

Mar 29 '25

Ollama vs. LM Studio: Your First Guide to Running LLMs Locally

#ai #machinelearning #beginners #opensource

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Paul

Mar 29 '25

10 Useful Tools and Libraries for Python Developers

#python #programming #pythonlibraries #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 28 '25

AWS open source newsletter, #208

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Syed Mudasser Anayat

Mar 29 '25

Understanding Generative AI: The Future of Creativity 🔥🤯

#webdev #ai #opensource #openai

3 min read

Mar 29 '25

JavaFX Notepad Tutorial

#java #javafx #tutorial #opensource

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Vivek V. for AWS Community Builders

Mar 28 '25

MLflow-Powered Generative AI Observability with Amazon Bedrock

#ai #opensource #aws #cdk

7 min read

NocoBase

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NocoBase Weekly Updates: Add Route Management

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

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typia (20,000x faster validator) challenges to Agentic AI framework, with its compiler skill

#typescript #programming #opensource #ai

12 min read

NocoBase

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Orchisky’s Smart Manufacturing Upgrade: Why They Chose NocoBase

#lowcode #opensource #manufacture #digitalization

5 min read

Mar 28 '25

Rebuilding the Internet from the Ground Up: Introducing STF

#web3 #opensource #privacy #blockchain

2 min read

koyopro

Mar 28 '25

After a Year of Wanting a Typed Rails and Starting Development, I Released a Framework for TypeScript

#typescript #opensource #orm #webdev

6 min read

Sumonta Saha Mridul

Mar 28 '25

How to Get Daily GitHub Follower Updates via Email (No Coding Needed!)

#webdev #github #programming #opensource

3 min read

Nayan

Mar 17 '25

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

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