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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 18 '25

Open-Source AI Assistants for Your Product — A Deep Dive into Vezlo’s Architecture

#opensource #vezlo #ai #semanticsearch

4 min read

Dec 18 '25

Top 5 Emerging Developer Tools to Watch in 2026

#productivity #programming #opensource #react

18 min read

Short Play Skits

Dec 17 '25

I got tired of Reddit's API pricing, so I built a local scraper (and it's free)

#opensource #reddit #python #scraping

3 min read

marcosomma

Dec 2 '25

🧠Maybe I Just Do Not Get It!

#ai #rag #machinelearning #opensource

12 min read

Robbin

Nov 12 '25

Introducing NalthJS - A security framework for the web.

#webdev #opensource #typescript #security

1 min read

Dec 17 '25

MindsEye & MindScript: A Ledger-First Cognitive Architecture Technical Whitepaper v4.0

#programming #ai #mindseye #opensource

18 min read

Nov 13 '25

Project standards in Umami codebase - Part 1.0

#umami #codebase #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Edvin

Dec 15 '25

I built a Free Spotify to YouTube Music Migrator 🎵 (Python + React)

#python #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Atfa Solangi for PullFlow

Nov 17 '25

From Solo Maintainer to Foundation

#discuss #opensource #github #productivity

3 min read

Polliog

Dec 14 '25

Open Source Licenses Explained: The Good, The Bad, and The "Wait, Can I Actually Use This?"

#discuss #opensource #programming #beginners

8 min read

rokoss21

Dec 16 '25

Token Box Model

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jess Lee

Dec 15 '25

Share your projects in our end of year Show & Tell event!

#showdev #muxchallenge #devchallenge #opensource

1 min read

rokoss21

Dec 16 '25

Why AI Contracts Failed (Before FACET)

#programming #ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

NocoBase

Nov 13 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Dec 17 '25

13 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

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