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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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Mar 29

Every backend developer has this headache 😩

#node #systemdesign #opensource #npm

2 min read

abdelali Selouani

Mar 28

Show DEV: PressArk - Talk to Your WordPress Site Instead of Clicking Through It

#showdev #wordpress #ai #opensource

2 min read

Yu Han

Mar 29

SJF4J vs Jayway JsonPath: Up to 7x Faster in Java Benchmarks

#java #json #performance #opensource

3 min read

Mar 29

Bayan Flow 0.3.0: From 6 to +20 Algorithms

#webdev #algorithms #opensource #learning

3 min read

Mar 29

Self-hosting UK address lookup without paying per-query fees

#opensource #node #typescript #api

3 min read

Wes

Mar 29

Why Your SFTP Transfer Is Stuck at 2 MB/s (and the Fix Is a Protocol from 1983)

#opensource #rust #ssh #tooling

5 min read

Bobby

Mar 29

I Gave Claude Access to Data on All 54 African Countries. Here's How.

#mcp #ai #opensource #africa

3 min read

Mar 29

How I Reimplemented LÖVE2D in Rust to Play Balatro in a Terminal

#showdev #rust #gamedev #opensource

3 min read

Christian Alexander Nonis

Mar 29

From RAG to a “memory layer”: what building an AI assistant taught us

#ai #machinelearning #rag #opensource

3 min read

Mar 29

GPT4All Has a Free API: Run Private LLMs Locally with Python Bindings

#ai #python #llm #opensource

2 min read

Mar 29

💥 I Was Tired of Boring UIs, So I Built a CSS Framework Straight Out of a 1962 Comic Book

#showdev #css #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Vinh Nguyen for Stewie

Mar 29

AI agent context still misses the product layer

#ai #llm #agents #opensource

5 min read

Sammit Pal

Mar 29

genkode — Random ID & String Generator for Node.js

#node #typescript #npm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 29

How we Built a Free, Anonymous Survey & Quiz Tool — No Login, No Tracking

#webdev #opensource #javascript #buildinpublic

2 min read

Mar 29

AI Agents Break in 3 Predictable Ways (And How to Fix Them)

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #programming

2 min read

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