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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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Nov 17 '25

Project Structure in Umami codebase - Part 1.0

#umami #analysis #opensource #projectstructure

2 min read

Meysam

Nov 26 '25

I Built a Directory Aggregator in One Weekend (Then Made It Open Source)

#buildinpublic #opensource #indiehackers #supabase

8 min read

Nov 15 '25

Open-Sourcing arkA — A Universal Video Protocol Inspired by RSS

#opensource #protocol #webdev #video

1 min read

Nov 16 '25

ZipperOS: A Community-Driven Linux OS Designed by Users, for Users

#discuss #opensource #linux #showdev

1 min read

Dec 19 '25

How I Built a Fast, Client-Side JSON Viewer for Developers

#webdev #javascript #opensource #devtools

1 min read

Nov 15 '25

I Built the #1 Fastest Bun Framework At 13 Years Old

#node #opensource #javascript #typescript

1 min read

Nov 16 '25

[Apache Iceberg] Iceberg Performance: The Hidden Cost of NULLS FIRST

#apacheiceberg #apachespark #opensource #learning

9 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Nov 20 '25

Metabase 57: Dark mode 🌑 plus stronger governance and tighter workflows

#metabase #opensource #analytics #programming

7 min read

Gunnar Grosch for AWS

Dec 20 '25

DEV Track Spotlight: Building Agentic AI - Amazon Nova Act and Strands Agents in Practice (DEV327)

#aws #ai #agents #opensource

7 min read

Dec 19 '25

I Built a Free Open-Source MERN Starter Kit to Save Setup Time

#opensource #react #webdev #mern

2 min read

Nov 17 '25

From Proprietary Grey Zone to Open Source: Hyvä Theme’s Licensing Journey

#hyva #magneto #opensource #adobe

5 min read

Dec 19 '25

Lessons from 500+ GitHub Migrations

#devops #github #automation #opensource

6 min read

Nov 15 '25

3 Must-Have GNOME Extensions to Instantly Boost Your Desktop

#linux #mastodon #opensource #ubuntu

4 min read

Dinesh G

Nov 15 '25

Constructor overloading in java

#programming #beginners #java #opensource

2 min read

Muhammad Dhiyaul Atha

Dec 19 '25

IDS/IPS Tool: Open Source Modular Intrusion Detection & Prevention System + Real-time Dashboard

#tooling #security #opensource #linux

2 min read

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