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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.

submission guidelines

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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Marco

May 9

FreeRTOS vs Zephyr vs ThreadX: choosing the right RTOS

#architecture #iot #opensource #systemdesign

2 min read

StemSplit

May 9

The Best Resources for Audio Stem Separation in Python (2026)

#python #audio #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

freerave

May 22

TeamPCP Broke GitHub — And Nobody Saw It Coming (But They Should Have)

#opensource #javascript #devops #security

12 min read

BrethofAI

May 22

Don't summarize your memory — search it

#ai #opensource #claude #tooling

3 min read

May 8

See SYNAPSE Route a Three-Model Pipeline — No Connector Code Required.

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

3 min read

eaymoneyawmsniper

May 8

I turned 1,460+ public APIs into a searchable JSON endpoint

#api #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Ontario

May 8

Google Sheets is your CMS - A SheetSite Dev Log

#showdev #webdev #opensource #startup

2 min read

Niloy

May 9

Help Improve MegonCSS – A Lightweight, Developer-Friendly CSS Framework 🚀

#showdev #css #opensource #webdev

1 min read

May 29

A self-hosted Google reCAPTCHA alternative (we ship it)

#development #webdev #opensource #javascript

7 min read

robot1996

May 10

Building a small fan-made Diablo IV loot filter finder

#opensource

2 min read

May 9

I Built an Open Source PHP SDK for Mono — Here's Why It Was Worth It

#opensource #php #sdk #mono

2 min read

fromthearchitect

May 8

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Bonus: The Stack Underneath

#gnome #rust #opensource #linux

7 min read

May 8

I built a more restrained alternative to giant AI skill bundles

#opensource #ai #typescript #productivity

3 min read

GitHub “Finish-Up-A-Thon” Challenge Submission

Om Shree

May 28

I Built an MCP Agent Framework for My B.Tech Major Project. It Got 750+ npm Downloads in Week One. Here's the Comeback Story.

#githubcopilot #githubchallenge #mcp #opensource

4 min read

May 8

From Score to Workflow: Turning STEM BIO-AI Into a Local Audit System

#bioinformatics #opensource #governance #ai

14 min read

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