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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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Sep 2

Introducing: @traversable/zod

#typescript #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Tobias

Sep 3

Erdus

#opensource #database #postgres #programming

2 min read

Sep 3

Inside the Portfolio: How Stocksimpy Tracks Trades and Value

#programming #python #opensource #learning

3 min read

Pavel

Sep 2

I Built a Deep Learning Framework in Rust from Scratch. Here’s How It Works.

#rust #opensource #deeplearning #machinelearning

3 min read

Sep 2

ArtistAssistApp Improvements – August 2025

#showdev #opensource #pwa #react

2 min read

Sep 2

I open-sourced sttrace.com's problemset

#opensource #programming #devops #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

mntsx

Sep 2

Introducing THOAD, High Order Derivatives for PyTorch Graphs

#python #ai #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

ByteKnight

Sep 2

Orbot for Android: Secure Your Traffic with Tor

#android #mobile #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Ushakov Michael for Wissance

Sep 2

Fully functional REST Controller with one line in .Net

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #api

3 min read

Sep 2

Flameshot - My favorite screeshot app

#flameshot #cli #opensource #macos

3 min read

Zachary Podbela

Sep 2

[Free + Open Source] Say Goodbye to Admin Apps: Make Your Django REST API Available to Claude/ChatGPT with a few lines of code

#opensource #mcp #django #sideprojects

1 min read

Sep 2

Gobian:My own OS

#programming #opensource #development #coding

1 min read

Asouei

Sep 2

Stop Wrapping Every fetch() in try/catch — A Safer Error Handling for TypeScript

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

6 min read

NocoBase

Sep 2

7 Powerful Open Source Alternatives to Zapier

#opensource #tooling #github #zapier

10 min read

Caiz.dev

Sep 2

The world Caiz.dev aims to build: a new developer community for the AI era

#community #ai #nodebb #opensource

2 min read

Patrick Carstens for Githelp

Sep 2

Benefits of Having Paid Code Support

#opensource #programming #codesupport

7 min read

Sep 2

How to Choose the Right Open-Source Headless CMS for Your Project

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

shoki

Sep 1

Building a PHP-based ERP with Hubleto in few minutes

#php #erp #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Fahad Abid

Sep 1

AI Repos Hub

#ai #datascience #learning #opensource

1 min read

Sherin Jebamalar M

Sep 1

🍔 I Accidentally Became a Restaurant Owner (In Electron.js)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #electron

2 min read

Sep 2

10 Free Tools Every Developer Should Know in 2025 🛠️✨

#programming #ai #opensource #learning

1 min read

Sep 1

Multidimensional Embedding Comparison with “diemsim”

#datascience #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

LumGenLab

Sep 1

I Built a GPT Model from Scratch in C++ (Runs on 2GB RAM!)

#machinelearning #deeplearning #opensource #cpp

2 min read

Narsagna

Sep 1

Track your GitHub Aura ✨

#ai #opensource #github

1 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Sep 1

How to Install & Run Qwen Image

#qwen #ai #genai #opensource

7 min read

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