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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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Dec 10

Introducing GoCVKit: Zero-Boilerplate Computer Vision in Go

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

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Shayan

Dec 11

I Built OpenFields ( Free Alternative to ACF for WP )

#showdev #wordpress #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Dec 11

# Moving from Terraform Monorepo to Multi-Repo Without Losing Your Mind (and Your Sleep)

#devops #cloud #terraform #opensource

2 min read

Dec 11

# Zero-Downtime Blue-Green Deployments at Scale: What I Learned Migrating 500+ Microservices

#devops #productivity #microservices #opensource

3 min read

Idorenyin Williams

Dec 11

I Got Tired of Rewriting Payment Code, So I Built a Unified SDK for Africa

#javascript #react #opensource #goodfirstissue

2 min read

Maksim Lanies for Cloudbridge Research

Dec 11

Quic-test: an open tool for testing QUIC, BBRv3, and FEC under real-world network conditions

#tooling #testing #opensource #networking

5 min read

Mahmoud Ramadan

Dec 11

💡 Two Lesser-Known Laravel Tricks: numerify & invisible

#php #laravel #opensource #github

1 min read

Navneet Singh Rajput

Dec 11

ScreenUI Is Now Live A Modern UI Library + CLI for Next.js, React & Tailwind

#react #opensource #typescript #javascript

1 min read

Md. Mostafijur Rahman

Dec 11

Resume Canvas - Open Source Resume Builder

#resume #opensource #nextjs #career

2 min read

Rolan Lobo

Dec 11

I Built LinkNest Because My Brain Is Full and My Bookmarks Are a Disaster 📲

#flutter #opensource #privacy #productivity

4 min read

Asadbek Karimov

Dec 11

One Player to Rule Them All (MP4, HLS, Dash, YouTube, Vimeo)

#react #frontend #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Dec 11

Bifrost: The Fastest Open Source LLM Gateway

#performance #llm #go #opensource

4 min read

Pub

Dec 11

I built an open-source directory website template with Nuxt 4 🚀

#opensource #vue #nuxt #webdev

1 min read

Artemas

Dec 11

Raffi: a modern Stremio‑compatible streaming client I built at 16

#webdev #svelte #go #opensource

2 min read

Willie

Dec 11

I built a visual workflow tool for developers with Tauri

#vibecoding #opensource #react #rust

2 min read

Dec 11

Linux in Action: Mastering Crontab for Task Scheduling (RHCSA & DevOps)

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

3 min read

Kaic Bento

Dec 11

I turned my personal Windows setup script into a public tool - and it’s now open source

#productivity #opensource #tooling #microsoft

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Dec 11

Convert Figma layers to code in Tailwind CSS with Flowbite MCP

#ai #mcp #tailwindcss #opensource

4 min read

Sara_T

Dec 11

Deploying Mooncake for LLMs: Installation & Optimization

#ai #opensource #architecture #machinelearning

7 min read

Dec 11

Svelte Bash: A Lightweight Terminal Component for Svelte 5 (Autoplay, VFS, Themes, Custom Commands)

#svelte #frontend #opensource #webcomponents

2 min read

Zied

Dec 11

TLS-Chameleon

#tooling #security #opensource #python

3 min read

Kyle Homen

Dec 10

Release 0.4 Update

#godot #godotengine #gdscript #opensource

2 min read

Rostislav Dugin

Dec 10

Postgresus 2.0: new version of open source PostgreSQL backup tool

#database #postgres #webdev #opensource

12 min read

Dec 10

I built a Laravel package to stop silent cron failures

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

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Dec 11

How I Mastered Chaos (Testing): My LFX Journey with CloudNativePG

#cncf #lfx #devops #opensource

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