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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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May 23

10 VS Code Extensions To Become The Ultimate Developer🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

devops methodology

May 24

MERN App Deployed on Kubernetes | 3 TIER WEB APPLICATION via Kubeadm

#devops #mern #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Pierre-Clément Kerneis

May 24

We Need a Spec Format for Design, QA, and Documentation

#testing #frontend #ux #opensource

3 min read

May 24

Inside a emoji-picker-react: State, Events, and UI Patterns

#javascript #react #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Bridge Group Solutions

May 24

Open-Source Software's Effect on Contemporary Development

#opensource #software #development #effects

4 min read

May 24

Ultimate Guide to Free & Open-Source AI Agent Frameworks

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

May 24

Introducing AI Shahab: A Free Persian AI Chatbot with the New "cas" Language Model

#showdev #ai #opensource #discuss

1 min read

May 24

Developing a High Frequency Trading Software

#programming #beginners #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

May 24

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Aniket Raj

May 24

Project KARL AI

#ai #kotlin #programming #opensource

1 min read

James Derek Ingersoll for GodsIMiJ AI Solutions

May 23

LocoLama – Local AI Chat Terminal Using Ollama + Next.js (DROP002)

#ai #opensource #github #ollama

2 min read

Pavel

May 23

# 🧩 nodeBond: Lightweight IPC for Node.js — revived and improved

#node #javascript #microservices #opensource

2 min read

Linghua Jin for cocoindex

May 24

How to build index with text embeddings

#showdev #opensource #ai #python

3 min read

May 23

Day 30 of #30DayLinuxChallenge — From “Wait, What’s a Terminal?” to “Let’s Partition This Thing!”

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

May 23

RHCSA Prep for Absolute Beginners: The “Diskless but Determined” Edition

#linux #cloudwhistler #beginners #opensource

3 min read

May 23

Free Linux Foundation Certifications on Cybersecurity, IoT, Web Development, and More

#learning #beginners #opensource #career

1 min read

May 23

NLWeb: Microsoft's Open-Source Leap into AI-Powered Websites

#nlweb #opensource #ai #conversationalweb

5 min read

Supun Wickramarachchi

May 23

🚀 Building My Own Mars Rover Simulator with Python & Tkinter

#softwareengineering #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

Dave Tofflemire

May 23

Forged in Silence: Building Sigil Without an Audience

#opensource #rust #ai #machinelearning

2 min read

Abubaker Siddique

May 23

What Your GitHub Stars Say About You

#github #opensource #programming #productivity

4 min read

May 23

Why I Built goboot: A Developer-First Go Scaffolder That Actually Does Something

#go #opensource #productivity #cli

2 min read

May 23

Day 10: CTRL+ALT+WOW — Our Command-Line Glow-Up Recap!

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

4 min read

May 23

How I structured my Graphics API (PiGEF)

#api #graphicsapi #gamedev #opensource

1 min read

Nomadev

May 23

So I Hooked My AI Agent Up with Notion. Here's What Happened.

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

3 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 23

🎨 Add Some Personality to Your Terminal with Figlet and Lolcat 🌈

#cloudwhistler #linux #cloud #opensource

3 min read

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