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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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Ameh Mathias Ejeh

Jun 24

The Importance of Leveraging AI to Learn

#ai #development #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jun 24

Lock, Java, and two nulls: XMage edition

#java #opensource #xmage #unittest

12 min read

Shantanu

Jun 24

LiveHealthChecks - real time API Health Check monitoring

#opensource #architecture #api #aspnet

1 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 24

How to Install and Run Mistral Small 3.2 24B

#ai #opensource #nlp #tutorial

6 min read

Jun 24

Developer Tooling #003

#webdev #productivity #opensource #github

1 min read

Jun 24

Django Interview Questions & Key Concepts – Part 5

#python #programming #opensource #webdev

4 min read

NocoBase

Jun 24

Airtable Data Limit Reached: 3 Common Solutions

#opensource #data #database #lowcode

8 min read

GY

Jun 24

Intent: Event-Sourcing Starts in 5 Minutes (batteries-included)

#showdev #webdev #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Jun 24

The Best ngrok alternative for Mac: Tunnelmole - Open Source

#ngrok #mac #tunneling #opensource

4 min read

Jun 24

Open-Source AI Stacks for E-Commerce (2025 Guide)

#ecommerce #opensource #rag #ai

7 min read

Jun 24

API2CSV - Toutes les fonctionnalités

#webdev #json #csv #opensource

1 min read

Rigby

Jun 24

Announcing Mercur 1.0: Marketplace Platform without Limits

#marketplace #opensource #medusa #programming

1 min read

Jun 23

wtfutil/wtf release v0.44.0 and my contribution long forgotten

#opensource #cli #github

3 min read

Sharon

Jun 24

Meet the Open-Source WAF Trusted by Top Engineers to Block Real-World Attacks

#opensource #safeline #waf #cybersecurity

3 min read

zak

Jun 23

🧰 I launched my minimalist config journal: here’s what’s inside.

#webdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Jun 24

0.email, AI powered email, built to save you time

#zero #react #opensource #email

1 min read

Nakadra

Jun 23

Sphere v0.2.0: Introducing a Public Hub for Shareable, Sandboxed Commands

#showdev #rust #opensource #docker

3 min read

Abhishek Govind

Jun 23

🔐 How to Reset Your Forgotten PostgreSQL Password (Windows Guide)

#postgres #database #databaseadministration #opensource

3 min read

Jun 23

Day 3 : DX-First Thinking: Why I Added @EnableTenantIsolation to My Spring Boot Starter

#springboot #java #opensource #dx

1 min read

Sharvit Kashikar

Jun 24

I Built a Database from Scratch in Go - Here's What I Learned About B+ Trees, ACID Transactions, and 1,800 ops/sec Performance 🚀

#showdev #go #opensource #database

4 min read

Kazim Ali

Jun 23

Mastering Repository Sync: Your Guide to Automated GitHub Workflows for Seamless CI/CD

#cicd #githubactions #opensource #devops

7 min read

Jun 23

Windows Lockdown Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Kiosk Mode on Windows 11

#security #kiosk #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Gao Dalie (高達烈)

Jun 23

MemoryOS MCP + RAG Agent That Can Remember Anything

#datascience #ai #opensource #llm

10 min read

Zainab Imran for PatentScanAI

Jun 23

Best Practices for Finding Non-Patent Literature for Software Patents

#startup #ai #opensource #legaltech

3 min read

Jun 22

Contribute and Learn Languages with wordsIK — Words I Know

#edutech #opensource #learning #webdev

1 min read

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