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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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Genix

Dec 25 '25

Make Vim Useful Again with VEX

#showdev #opensource #programming #vim

5 min read

Dec 7 '25

PyCrucible - Fast and robust PyInstaller alternative

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Eliana Lam

Nov 29 '25

Connecting the World Through Open Source: Practical Journey of Technology, Community and Global Developer Relations

#discuss #community #opensource

2 min read

Dec 28 '25

Building a Retro CRT Terminal Website with WebGL and GitHub Copilot (Claude Opus 4.5)

#ai #opensource #webdev #webgl

4 min read

Nov 23 '25

SteadyFetch: A tiny Android SDK that refuses to let your downloads die

#android #kotlin #opensource #networking

3 min read

Nov 24 '25

Components structure in Umami codebase — Part 1.0

#umami #opensource #components #structure

3 min read

Yash Kumar Gupta

Dec 16 '25

Stop getting lost in the Next.js App Router: I built an open-source visualizer

#nextjs #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Puneet-Kumar2010

Dec 26 '25

🦉 From Broken Models to Living Systems: My Journey Building AI Without a GPU

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

Nov 24 '25

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#opensource #networking #apl

1 min read

Eira

Nov 26 '25

I Built a Modern Compiler in Rust: Meet Lamina

#showdev #rust #programming #opensource

3 min read

Prakash

Dec 27 '25

Open Source: A Friendly Guide for New Developers

#opensource #beginners #developers

7 min read

Dec 16 '25

Building Production-Ready Vector Search for the Browser with Rust and WebAssembly

#rust #webassembly #ai #opensource

5 min read

Sivaprasad Murali

Nov 24 '25

Vargula: Beautiful Terminal Styling Made Simple

#python #opensource #programming #tutorial

5 min read

Nov 23 '25

Releasing My First Open-Source CLI Tool: Lessons from Publishing Repository-Context-Packager

#cli #npm #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Sivaprasad Murali

Nov 24 '25

Meet Fylex: The Smartest File Copy Tool You've Never Used (Yet)

#python #opensource #productivity #cli

2 min read

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