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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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CrisisCore-Systems

Dec 8 '25

Two People, Same Body: A Developer's Crisis Architecture

#mentalhealth #opensource #webdev #react

4 min read

Nicolas Bonnici

Dec 4 '25

Say hello to GoREST v0.3

#tooling #go #opensource #api

5 min read

Nov 4 '25

useLaunchDarkly hook in Chef codebase.

#uselaunchdarkly #opensource #chef #featureflag

3 min read

Dec 9 '25

This is my software journey

#learning #cryptography #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Dec 8 '25

From 0 to 11 Bugs Fixed: How GoAWK Battle-Tested My 3000x Faster Regex Engine

#go #opensource #regex #performance

4 min read

NextBlock

Nov 3 '25

Nextblock Update: 5 NPM Libs, `npm create nextblock`, and What's Next

#npm #opensource #nextjs #monorepo

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Nov 3 '25

Reflections of Hacktoberfest

#programming #opensource #java #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Muhammet Furkan Çankaya

Nov 3 '25

DAFU🦉 is Now Open Source: Enterprise-Grade Fraud Detection for Everyone

#opensource #machinelearning #frauddetection #fastapi

5 min read

Michael Aglietti

Nov 3 '25

Apache Ignite 3.1.0 is now available

#database #distributedsystems #sql #opensource

2 min read

Dec 7 '25

🚀 Introducing MemCloud — Pool Unused RAM Across Machines on Your LAN (Rust, Zero-Config)

#distributedsystems #opensource #networking #memcloud

2 min read

Dec 8 '25

I tried to break my autosave library in 25 different ways, and it survived

#javascript #webdev #opensource #frontend

2 min read

Nov 3 '25

🧩 Building a sustainable collaboration stack: XWiki + OpenProject live session

#productivity #opensource #resources #tooling

1 min read

Dec 8 '25

My AI agent cost me $400 overnight, so I built pytest for agents and open-sourced it

#ai #opensource #agents #testing

3 min read

Nov 17 '25

Introduction to Swarm: an extensible Typescript code generation framework

#typescript #opensource #webdev #resources

6 min read

Felipe Stanzani

Nov 2 '25

JSON is Making You Lose Money!!!

#programming #ai #javascript #opensource

4 min read

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