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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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Puneet-Kumar2010

Dec 21 '25

Meet Xenoglaux-AI: The Next-Gen Text Generator AI 🦉✨

#discuss #ai #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Stepan Romankov

Jan 23

From 5 Minutes to 15 Seconds: Parallel Database Tests for Telegram Bots

#rust #telegram #testing #opensource

9 min read

Malek Wael

Dec 18 '25

I built an open-source Chrome Extension to stop my YouTube Shorts addiction (Manifest V3)

#showdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Dec 18 '25

VeriBiota v0.2.1: Deterministic Verification with Proven Guarantees

#programming #biology #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Tongyi Lab

Dec 19 '25

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#ai #opensource #llm #genai

5 min read

Michael Amachree

Dec 18 '25

Day 3: Holiday Notes That Don’t Get Lost (Note Taker) 🗒️

#svelte #sveltekit #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Chen Debra

Dec 19 '25

Decentralization, Master–Slave, and High Availability: A Clear Architectural Comparison Through DolphinScheduler

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource

5 min read

Dec 18 '25

Stop Juggling .env Files: Meet Fana-Envy, a Go-based TTY with Env Manager

#go #productivity #programming #opensource

1 min read

DinoDev

Dec 20 '25

I built an experimental open-source tool to run Node.js and Python without Docker

#python #javascript #opensource #cli

1 min read

Jan 1

Hacking the Trades: Why I Chose Python for HVAC Field Automation

#python #opensource #automation

2 min read

Adamm

Dec 18 '25

Format Indonesian Rupiah Like a Pro with formatRupiah()

#typescript #indonesia #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Wang Wei

Dec 19 '25

Correcting a Code Example

#blockchain #beginners #documentation #opensource

1 min read

Jan 22

My Two Best Teammates Have Four Paws. And They Keep Me Sane While Coding

#programming #python #opensource #sideprojects

4 min read

Nathan M

Jan 22

Shopify Dev Starter Kit - Store Checkout with a Dual-Mode Architecture

#react #typescript #shopify #opensource

3 min read

freerave

Dec 20 '25

How I Refactored My VS Code Extension to be 100% Serverless & Offline 🚀 (CodeTune v0.0.7)

#vscode #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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