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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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Jun 21

Your Backend Isn’t Broken — It’s Blind

#opensource #java #programming #beginners

1 min read

Tanish Raj

Jul 20

I Tried Making HTML Dynamic (Without Frameworks) — Here’s What Happened ⚡

#webdev #opensource #go #sideprojects

4 min read

Renildo Pereira

Jul 20

A sensible structure for your package.json

#node #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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Jun 30

Why Smart New Developers Are Skipping the Build Step: The Juris Advantage

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Felix Schneider

Jul 9

Accelerating translations with continuous integration

#ai #opensource #github #documentation

2 min read

Juan Manuel Barea Martínez

Jun 16

The Open Source Beginner Contributor Guide

#opensource #codenewbie #community #career

1 min read

Jun 16

🚀 Help Shape the Future of Angular UI – Cerious Widgets is Looking for Contributors!

#angular #opensource #components #javascript

2 min read

Jun 16

🚀 Help Shape the Future of Angular UI – Cerious Widgets is Looking for Contributors!

#angular #opensource #components #javascript

2 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Jul 20

I Built an AI-Powered API Mocking Tool That's Already Downloaded 3000+ Times - Here's What Makes It Viral

#api #development #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jun 16

Assessing Security Risks of Open Source Repos

#security #opensource

2 min read

Mohammad Anzawi

Jun 15

Choosing the Right Workflow Engine for Business Approval Systems

#workfkow #programming #csharp #opensource

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 18

Storage: 10x Larger Uploads, 3x Cheaper Cached Egress, and 2x Egress Quota

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Mak Sò

Jul 19

🧠 Why LangGraph Loops Stall Thought and OrKa Doesn't

#ai #agentaichallenge #python #opensource

1 min read

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Jul 19

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#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Sunil Kumar Dash for Composio

Jul 22

We raised $29M to make your agents stronger, smarter, and better

#ai #opensource #javascript #python

2 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 18

Persistent Storage and 97% Faster Cold Starts for Edge Functions

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 17

New Observability Features in Supabase

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Josiah

Jun 15

New way to do graphics. X E.

#discuss #programming #gpu #opensource

2 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 18

Supabase Launch Week 15 Hackathon

#webdev #hackathon #opensource #programming

3 min read

Jun 15

GSoC 2025 – Week 2: Comparator and Pull Resistor Implementation

#gsoc2025 #opensource #circuitverse

2 min read

Astrodevil for Entelligence AI

Jul 17

Everything You Need to Know About the Gemini CLI

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

6 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 18

Project of the Week: Supabase

#discuss #opensource #github #programming

3 min read

Guilherme Gonçalves Machado

Jul 18

Gurudev®: Explorations Toward a New Semantic Language and Interoperability Engine

#programming #opensource #learning #development

2 min read

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Jun 14

🚀 Just Launched: InkSpire – A Smart Blogging Platform for Developers

#webdev #ai #react #opensource

1 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Jul 30

How To Stop Malware Files/Zip to Been Uploaded in your Website

#opensource #npm #github #cybersecurity

1 min read

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