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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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Leonardo Rodrigues

Dec 1 '25

Small shortcuts that made my Git workflow easier

#git #productivity #terminal #opensource

3 min read

Dec 1 '25

Why I Built Shamba-MedCare (And What I Learned About Solving Real Problems)

#ai #webdev #opensource #computerscience

3 min read

Jan 5

How to Monetize Open Source Projects: A New Approach with CommitAds

#github #webmonetization #opensource

3 min read

Dec 2 '25

How I Built a Production-Ready SaaS in a Weekend (and Open-Sourced It)

#saas #node #stripe #opensource

1 min read

RisingWave Labs

Dec 2 '25

EXPLAIN ANALYZE in RisingWave: Profiling Real‑Time Query Performance

#productivity #opensource #database #datascience

3 min read

Khan Areeb Khalid

Dec 2 '25

Extract YouTube Playlist Links Instantly: Open-Source Tool Built with Next.js 14

#nextjs #googlecloud #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 5

What is new on Respect\Validation 3.0

#news #backend #opensource #php

9 min read

crisbez

Dec 2 '25

Why We Built Atlas4D: The Missing 4D Data Platform

#postgressql #opensource #ai #geospatial

3 min read

Jan 5

We Built an Open-Source Pipeline That Turned Meeting Notes Into a Live Knowledge Graph — And It Went Viral (200K Impressions)

#opensource #knowledgegraph #llm #python

2 min read

Dec 22 '25

Why Open Source

#programming #productivity #opensource #database

13 min read

Dec 5 '25

Series 2 Google Maps Clone: With Next.js 16 + OpenLayers + TypeScript — A Modern Map Starter Kit

#showdev #opensource #map #webdev

6 min read

Vladislav Guzey

Jan 4

Complete Ollama Tutorial (2026) – LLMs via CLI, Cloud & Python

#llm #ai #programming #opensource

4 min read

Danny Azuncion Vinces

Dec 1 '25

Cómo creé una App educativa Open Source con React y Capacitor (NeuroMind).

#showdev #react #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Dec 24 '25

Free Tailwind CSS v4 Components (Open Source)

#tailwindcss #vue #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Nikhil J

Jan 4

We Built an Open Source Alternative to Laravel Forge - Here's Why

#laravel #webdev #devops #opensource

2 min read

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