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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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#cloud #devops #opensource #ai

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

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#programming #ai #opensource #produc

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#webdev #devops #productivity #opensource

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Yuri for Supabase

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#programming #react #productivity #opensource

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NocoBase

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#opensource #appsheet #lowcode #nocode

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Jamie-Lee Salazar

Apr 1

How to build an AI Agent for Gmail that can read and send emails (Python + OpenAI + Streamlit)

#ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Apr 1

🎨 svggles – Make Interactive SVG Illustrations in React (with 1 Line)

#webdev #react #opensource #design

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Apr 1

BackupSync: A Comprehensive Linux Backup Solution for Developers and SysAdmins

#linux #backup #opensource #sysadmin

3 min read

Apr 1

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#javascript #ocaml #npm #opensource

2 min read

Apr 1

New Python Language

#programming #python #productivity #opensource

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Carrie

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#beginners #tutorial #opensource #security

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Nikolas

Apr 1

Call for feedback to the dev community

#api #community #testing #opensource

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Yuri for Supabase

Apr 1

Edge Functions: Deploy from the Dashboard + Deno 2.1

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Vasudevan Tamilarasan

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My starting point for Linux

#linux #opensource #developer #debian

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Yuri for Supabase

Apr 1

Postgres Language Server: Initial Release

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

12 min read

Apr 1

Introduction to Key-Value Stores

#programming #go #opensource #tutorial

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Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

Apr 1

Integrating a Custom Provider into the ONLYOFFICE AI Plugin

#onlyoffice #ai #opensource

3 min read

Vladislav Guzey

Apr 1

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

#ai #google #opensource #tooling

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Apr 1

DevOps Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Best Open-Source DevOps Projects to Contribute in 2025

#devops #opensource #devopscommunity #beginners

3 min read

Apr 1

WebRTCPeerProvider component in FilePizza codebase.

#javascript #opensource #webrtc #filepizza

3 min read

Alok Rawat

Apr 1

Creative Work: ChatGPT-4 and the Future of Design

#chatgpt #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Furkan Gözükara

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#beginners #ai #tutorial #opensource

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Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

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Liam ERD: Reinventing Database Visualization

#erd #liamerd #database #opensource

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Mani Shankar Tulabandu

Mar 31

I Built a Job Tracker to Solve a Pain We've All Felt

#showdev #opensource #productivity #discuss

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Mar 31

Why I Built USPL: Helping GPT Understand Multi-Table SQL

#chatgpt #llm #sql #opensource

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