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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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Sep 9

Why JSON Mode Fails (and How to Fix It)

#openai #opensource #python #llm

2 min read

Sep 9

Stop Wasting Time on Backend Boilerplate: Meet create-node-spark

#opensource #npm #node

1 min read

Federico Moretti

Sep 9

Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Will Use Rust to Provide Sudo

#rust #ubuntu #linux #opensource

2 min read

Sep 9

Introducing react-night-toggle - A Simple Dark/Light Mode Switch for React

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Sreenath

Sep 9

I Finally Stopped Alt-Tabbing to ChatGPT While Coding

#ai #productivity #terminal #opensource

7 min read

Sep 22

Apache Polaris Dev List Digest (Sept 15–19, 2025)

#dataengineering #resources #data #opensource

4 min read

Sep 22

Apache Iceberg Dev List Digest (Sept 15–19, 2025)

#dataengineering #data #opensource #learning

3 min read

Roman Tsypuk for AWS Community Builders

Sep 22

AWS OpenSearch Full Documents Reindexing: When? Why? How?

#database #aws #opensource #devops

5 min read

Sep 13

Async Web Scraping with scrapy_cffi

#python #webscraping #asyncio #opensource

4 min read

Sep 8

Blogging-OSD600

#opensource #github

2 min read

Serhii Kuianov for FaynoSync

Sep 8

Team-Based Authorization in faynoSync — An Overview for Developers

#go #api #opensource #development

3 min read

Farzan Afringan

Sep 21

Why Linux Kernel is the Beating Heart of Technology

#linux #kernel #opensource #technology

3 min read

Sep 8

All Data and AI Weekly #206: 08 Sept 2025

#llm #mcp #opensource #snowflake

5 min read

Sep 8

A few days ago, I was scrolling through YouTube playlists, thinking..

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Sep 8

The art and science of effectively maintaining changelogs

#git #github #opensource

2 min read

Sep 10

OSD600: My journey in Open Source

#programming #opensource

2 min read

Leanid Herasimau

Oct 3

Open-source project FlareProx presented — a Cloudflare proxy for web scraping and pentesting

#serverless #opensource #cybersecurity #tooling

2 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Sep 30

OpenTelemetry and Jaeger \| Key Features & Differences \[2025\]

#opensource #microservices #monitoring #tooling

6 min read

Modulax

Sep 20

Inside Modulax Infra: EVM RPC, Blockscout, and Wallet Indexing

#quantum #blockchain #webdev #opensource

3 min read

ELABBASSI Hicham

Oct 3

🏈⚽🏀 Hacktoberfest, from Side Project to Pro Sports: Contribute to a Library Used by NBA, NFL & Premier League Coaches

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #reactnative

2 min read

Sep 11

What is ESTree?

#estree #ripple #opensource #typescript

3 min read

cat dog (running_in_the_storm)

Sep 20

Tired of complicated compilation?Integrate AeroFFmpeg with one click to make Android audio and video development easier!

#android #opensource #ffmpeg

5 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Sep 20

Contributing a Code Change to an Open Source Project

#opensource #github #collaboration

3 min read

Sep 29

Introducing SecureCheck: An Open-Source Security Scanner for Web Applications

#security #node #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Sep 10

From Theory to Practice: A Complete Guide to Kubernetes In-Place Pod Resizing

#kubernetes #devops #programming #opensource

9 min read

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