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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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Oct 27

New feature with token count

#programming #opensource #cli #osd600lab6

1 min read

Oct 28

Tauri in Hoppscotch codebase.

#tauri #opensource #hoppscotch #rust

3 min read

Oct 28

Ditch the Specialist Myth: Why I'm a 'Master of Integration' in the Age of AI (And Why Your Team Needs One).

#opensource #performance #devops #career

3 min read

Huỳnh Nhân Quốc

Nov 12

The Indie Path

#dreamer #opensource #kitjs #webdev

4 min read

Beltrán Offerrall

Oct 26

Generates Webs from Type Hints

#showdev #python #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Bartosz Michalak for Momentum

Nov 6

Apple Health MCP Server: Use Cases for Developers

#mcp #apple #opensource #ai

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 31

Hacktoberfest Contribution: Hiero SDK Python

#hacktoberfest #web3 #python #opensource

1 min read

Nov 18

✨ Crafting Procedural Landscapes in Godot 4: A Tool for Your Worlds! ✨

#godot #gamedev #tool #opensource

2 min read

Dharam Ghevariya

Oct 26

Implementing Token Count Optimization in repo-contextr

#openai #tooling #opensource #llm

3 min read

Oct 27

Building Reproducible Geospatial Pipelines: A STAC Extension with DAGs

#data #computerscience #geospatial #opensource

3 min read

Rogério Araújo

Nov 17

deboa, a simple http client for rust

#rust #webdev #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Oct 27

Runtime i18n for Angular — Signals-first, SSR-safe, and ~3 kB gzipped

#angular #opensource #i18n #webdev

1 min read

Amogetswe Mashele

Nov 7

How Reddit Shaped v1.1 of My Open-Source Secrets Scanner

#devops #security #opensource #python

2 min read

NocoBase

Oct 26

14 AI-Powered Low-Code Platforms on GitHub Worth Watching

#opensource #ai #lowcode #github

11 min read

Oct 27

Caddyfile in Hoppscotch codebase.

#caddyfile #hoppscotch #opensource #tls

2 min read

Oct 26

My Hacktoberfest 2025 Journey: Beyond the Code 🌳

#hacktoberfest2025 #opensource #techforgood #beginners

4 min read

Jramone3

Nov 19

REMI Evolved: Beyond the Agentic Postgres Challenge

#postgres #opensource #audit #security

1 min read

Salman Shahriar

Nov 19

I Spent 30 Hours Building a Next.js Boilerplate So You Can Ship in 30 Minutes

#nextjs #typescript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Jessica Temporal

Oct 27

Field Notes: Hacktoberfest 2025, Week 4

#hacktoberfest #ai #git #opensource

3 min read

Aisalkyn Aidarova

Nov 18

Kafka

#dataengineering #beginners #opensource #architecture

10 min read

Nov 19

Turn your code into a visual, editable wiki. 100% open source

#showdev #opensource #tooling #discuss

1 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Oct 25

💬 Talkdo — Talk to Your Tasks, Right from Your Terminal

#python #cli #productivity #opensource

1 min read

NocoBase

Oct 27

Inside: How an 8-Person Team Delivers at Enterprise Speed

#opensource #nocode #lowcode #programming

7 min read

Oct 26

Presento GozoLite — un Code Executor modular que ejecuta 29 lenguajes reales, hecho por TotyLabs

#showdev #docker #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Shibani

Oct 31

Open source - The gateway to professionalism

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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