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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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Dec 5 '25

API layer in Umami codebase - Part 1.4

#umami #opensource #architecture #api

4 min read

Caroline Harper

Jan 8

What I Learned While Evaluating Emulator Projects on Android

#emulation #android #opensource #software

1 min read

Jan 8

Stop AI From Ruining Your Architecture: 3 Context Strategies (And How to Automate Them)

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 6

MoonShine 4: AI-Powered Admin Panel Revolution

#laravel #webdev #ai #opensource

18 min read

Doi-RD

Dec 5 '25

Fumbling in the Dark: A Journey with My Reliable Colleague

#beginners #kiro #opensource #kiroween

9 min read

Jan 4

Open Source, Open Heart: My Next Big Step

#opensource #devrel #webdev #programming

3 min read

Vasiliy

Dec 5 '25

Introducing QCrawl — A Modern Async Web Crawler Framework for Python

#showdev #python #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Tongyi Lab

Dec 5 '25

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#ai #opensource #devdiscuss #programming

3 min read

Tongyi Lab

Dec 5 '25

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#ai #opensource #devdiscuss #programming

3 min read

Max B.

Jan 8

Building domharvest-playwright: Why I Chose Simplicity Over Complexity

#javascript #node #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Adamm

Dec 17 '25

Display Rupiah Values Beautifully with formatCompact()

#typescript #indonesia #opensource #ui

4 min read

Zimtzimt

Jan 3

Serve the Cake First, Add the Icing Only When Safe

#webdev #react #opensource #programming

4 min read

Dec 4 '25

API layer in Umami codebase - Part 1.3

#umami #architecture #opensource #api

4 min read

Dec 5 '25

What is Overlay network driver?

#devops #docker #opensource #ai

3 min read

Alexandr Zahatski

Dec 5 '25

The Block Structure of Podlite

#opensource #documentation #tutorial #programming

2 min read

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