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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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freerave

Nov 8 '25

DotShare 2.0.0 — Smarter Social Sharing for Developers

#vscode #ai #opensource #freerave

1 min read

Mrunmay

Dec 12 '25

Pause, Inspect, Edit: Debugging LLM Requests in vLLora

#opensource #rust #agents #ai

3 min read

Dec 11 '25

Svelte Bash: A Lightweight Terminal Component for Svelte 5 (Autoplay, VFS, Themes, Custom Commands)

#svelte #frontend #opensource #webcomponents

2 min read

Nfrax

Dec 10 '25

Ship Production Apps in Days, Not Months: We Open-Sourced Our Entire Infrastructure Stack

#ai #programming #devex #opensource

6 min read

Alexey Nikitchenko

Dec 10 '25

I built a language-guessing game

#showdev #webdev #opensource #gamedev

1 min read

Dec 10 '25

A Complete Production-Ready Checklist for Smooth, Safe Deployments

#sre #devops #leadership #opensource

1 min read

Nov 6 '25

Conditional logic for jQuery formBuilder in 5 minutes

#javascript #jquery #forms #opensource

2 min read

Fabrice

Dec 11 '25

Découvrir Google Antigravity IDE : installation et utilisation gratuite

#antigravity #opensource #tutorial #ai

1 min read

Nov 24 '25

why i built yet another todo app

#showdev #opensource #productivity #localfirst

4 min read

Dec 8 '25

Carific.ai: Building a Production-Ready Auth System with Next.js 16, Better Auth, and TanStack Form

#nextjs #react #authentication #opensource

9 min read

Michael

Dec 10 '25

KDE Plasma 6.3 Didn’t Add Features—It Removed Friction

#opensource #kde #productivity #debian

6 min read

Dec 11 '25

How I Added Glossary Tooltip Hover to Kgateway Docs (Using Hugo Shortcodes)

#documentation #hugo #frontend #opensource

3 min read

ARPIT SRIVASTAVA

Dec 9 '25

Built a Rock-Solid E2E Tests for KubeStellar: A 3-Month Journey

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #kubestellar

5 min read

Nov 27 '25

Introducing LeanSpec: A Lightweight SDD Framework Built from First Principles

#ai #programming #github #opensource

6 min read

Dec 10 '25

Join the Web NFC Revolution: Contribute to the Open-Source Project at webnfc.org!

#webnfc #nfc #opensource

2 min read

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