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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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Feb 23

LIVO Next-Level Flutter State Management

#flutter #dart #opensource #statemanagement

3 min read

Yurukusa

Feb 23

I Built a CLI That Searches 3 Hours of Twitch VODs in 7 Minutes

#claudecode #opensource #productivity #python

7 min read

Jan Marc Coloma

Jan 20

I Built an n8n Community Node for Lemon Squeezy - Here's How to Automate Your Digital Product Sales

#n8n #automation #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 23

What is OpenTelemetry? [Everything You Need to Know]

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Jan 20

How I Merged a PR in VS Code & My Open Source Roadmap for GSoC 2026

#opensource #gsoc2026 #vscode #career

2 min read

Feb 23

Created a GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows Repository for Personal Use

#githubactions #opensource

3 min read

Jan 20

🔍 Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #security

2 min read

Feb 23

Lynx vs React Native vs Flutter: TikTok’s New Framework in Perspective

#flutter #mobile #opensource #reactnative

18 min read

Jan 20

Kubernetes Monitoring with Grafana

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #grafana

3 min read

Sarkis M

Feb 23

The Pipeline That Doesn't Know It's Being Watched

#functional #effectts #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Feb 23

I Built a Flight Recorder for AI Agents — Here's What It Catches

#ai #opensource #python #machinelearning

4 min read

Feb 9

I Built 2 AI Agents to Run My Open Source Project While I'm in Surgery

#ai #opensource #buildinpublic #agentsystem

4 min read

Amr

Jan 20

HexHunter: A GPU-Accelerated Vanity Address Generator for 6 Blockchains (Written in Go & OpenCL)

#go #web3 #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

jelly cri

Jan 20

I built a Python project to explore practical password security

#showdev #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

Jan 18

Paperfold: Using Telegram as Unlimited Cloud Storage with a Desktop App

#buildinpublic #opensource #productivity #rust

2 min read

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