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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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Day 4 of building my Habit Tracker app!

#reactnative #opensource

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Mahmoud Mabrouk

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8 Beginner-Friendly AI Open Source Projects to Kickstart Your Career in 2026

#ai #opensource #beginners #career

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Ashkanmirgomari

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🚀 I just built Datana - a secure local database system!

#python #database #security #opensource

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Oğuzhan

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#productivity #webdev #tooling #opensource

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[Update] VAC: A Memory Layer That Makes LLMs Remember You

#ai #rag #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

Dec 14 '25

Building the Ultimate Reddit Scraper: A Full-Featured, API-Free Data Collection Suite

#reddit #scraper #powerplatform #opensource

7 min read

Nov 26 '25

I built a Professional Automation Toolkit - 6 tools + FastAPI orchestrator (6,877 LOC)

#python #automation #fastapi #opensource

2 min read

Dec 11 '25

I Got Obsessed With 2-Byte Deltas and Built a Delta Compressor That Actually Hits Them

#rust #performance #compression #opensource

11 min read

Nov 13 '25

🚀 GitHub 2026 – Your Complete Guide to Open Source Contribution

#programming #github #opensource #learning

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Dec 17 '25

What is Macvlan network driver?

#docker #opensource #devops #development

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 18 '25

AWS open source newsletter, #217

#opensource #aws

23 min read

Dec 17 '25

Crier: Cross-Post Your Content Everywhere

#python #cli #automation #opensource

3 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Nov 14 '25

Final Project Report 1: Schema Evolution Support on Apache SeaTunnel Flink Engine

#opensource #apacheseatunnel #bigdata #dataengineering

4 min read

Ayu Adiati

Dec 10 '25

Open Source Engagement: What's Working Now?

#discuss #opensource #community

3 min read

ZigRazor

Nov 13 '25

CXXGraph vs Boost Graph Library: The Complete 2025 Comparison Guide

#showdev #cpp #opensource #algorithms

12 min read

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