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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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Precious Chisom

Dec 9

Linux history

#computerscience #linux #opensource

6 min read

Dec 9

10 Open-Source Tools That Replaced My Paid SaaS Stack (And Why They Actually Deserved To)

#ai #opensource #resources #saas

3 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 9

Day 21 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #productivity #opensource #career

2 min read

Dec 12

Designed a Complete Hiring Platform But Can't Code - Help Me Build it open source.

#opensource #dotnet #csharp #programming

6 min read

Dec 9

LLM Gateway Comparison: Bifrost vs LiteLLM (2025)

#ai #comparison #opensource #llm

3 min read

Oleksandra

Dec 10

Planning My Next Open-Source Contributions

#devjournal #tooling #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Rootflo Engineering

Dec 9

From Monolith to MicroAgents: Architecting Multi-Agent AI Systems

#opensource #middleware #ai #software

4 min read

Shubh

Dec 9

Built DockMate: A terminal UI for Docker (27 stars in 3 days)

#devops #docker #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Dec 9

Open Xanadu

#webdev #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Dec 9

Anki powered with AI open-source projec

#showdev #learning #opensource #ai

3 min read

Ben Sabic

Dec 9

Stop Maintaining 20 Config Files for Your AI Coding Assistants

#ai #javascript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Dec 10

What if your browser tabs could talk to you

#discuss #productivity #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Dec 10

Attendance Portal V2: The Ultimate Open-Source Employee Management System Built with React & Firebase

#showdev #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

Constantin

Dec 8

🚀 The Future of Information Retrieval (IR) — Looking for Testers & Feedback

#productivity #python #opensource #testing

2 min read

Dec 9

From Code to Context: Building Semantic Search & Live Chat Over Your Codebase with Vezlo

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

6 min read

NextBlock

Dec 8

Designing a Type-Safe Plugin System for Next.js: Why Zod is Our Secret Weapon

#zod #cms #opensource #nextjs

1 min read

Vibes

Dec 8

Base64 is Obsolete: Why I Built a Base-36 Encoder That Runs on Your Toaster

#rust #nol36 #opensource #base36

1 min read

Nico

Dec 8

Built an app that provides various audio tweak tools and runs entirely in the browser

#showdev #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Jon Davis

Dec 13

CoreIdent 0.4: A Ground-Up Rewrite for .NET 10+

#dotnet #oauth #authentication #opensource

4 min read

ALSOPS

Dec 8

metaForge: A Multi-Language Build & Automation Compiler

#programming #opensource #buildtools #programminglanguages

1 min read

ElshadHu

Dec 13

Release 0.4: My Plan for Contributions to Open Source

#learning #go #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Muhammad Hamid Raza

Dec 12

VS Code November 2025 (version 1.107) Release Notes

#discuss #vscode #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Dec 13

From Repo to Movement: Building an Open Source Project and Its Community

#opensource #community #github #rust

4 min read

Dec 9

Release 0.4- Progress

#ui #json #opensource

1 min read

Dec 9

State management in Umami codebase - Part 1.1

#statemanagement #umami #opensource #zustand

5 min read

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