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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 19

Built It Because I Was Tired of Rebuilding It: The Story Behind ThemeShift

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Feb 19

4 Year Badge… but I Don’t Remember Joining? 🤔

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Feb 13

What are Internal Developer Platforms?

#devops #opensource #cloud #tooling

4 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Feb 19

ArgoCD vs Flux: Technical Comparison

#gitops #cloudnative #opensource

5 min read

Jan 15

What technologies do you recommend for developing an affiliate network marketing platform?

#softwaredevelopment #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Feb 19

Termux FTW

#llm #android #opensource

1 min read

TheoForger

Jan 16

Back For More!

#opensource

3 min read

Jan 16

LogLayer: A Modern Logging Library for TypeScript / JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

viraj08

Jan 15

join my project semester simulator

#programming #python #career #opensource

1 min read

Suraj

Feb 18

Learn Markdown in less than 5 minutes.

#markdown #tutorial #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Sumonta Saha Mridul

Feb 18

I Built This GitHub README to Showcase My Skills & Get an Internship at a Software Company!

#webdev #github #portfolio #opensource

1 min read

Feb 18

[Part 1] How to install npm packages programmatically?

#opensource #typescript #npm #microgenerator

4 min read

Feb 18

Open-source is like all eyes looking at it, with Cam Saul, Metabase

#podcast #clojure #opensource #python

1 min read

Judith-Data-Processing-Hacks

Feb 18

Do Ordered Grouping and Aggregation within Groups — From SQL to SPL #1

#programming #sql #database #opensource

2 min read

Gittech

Feb 17

30 Trending GitHub Repositories You Can’t Afford to Miss in 2025!

#github #webdev #programming #opensource

10 min read

Feb 17

Step-Audio: The First Production-Ready Open-Source Framework for Intelligent Speech Interaction

#ai #llm #tts #opensource

4 min read

Feb 17

Introducing LetterLens: A Powerful Open-Source Word Counter

#opensource #webdev #nextjs #tailwindcss

2 min read

Feb 17

Release 0.47.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action

#githubaction #opensource #release

1 min read

Deep Shah

Feb 17

🚀 How to Run Dolphin Uncensored AI Locally: A Step-by-Step Guide! 🦾

#ai #dolphinllm #opensource

2 min read

Feb 17

🚀 Build a Simple To-Do List App with React Native & Expo – TaskMate 📝

#opensource #mobile #reactnative #javascript

1 min read

Feb 17

🛰️ SpaceX Kotlin API Library – Open-Source Kotlin Library for SpaceX API Integration

#kotlin #opensource #androiddev #android

1 min read

Feb 17

Free and Open-Source Graphics Editing Tools

#tooling #opensource #free #editing

3 min read

Igor Fraga

Feb 17

Open Source: Start your Path to Contribution

#opensource #career #programming #java

3 min read

Joodi

Feb 16

Top 13 Most-Starred Open Source Next.js Projects on GitHub ⭐

#opensource #nextjs #javascript #react

3 min read

Sev

Feb 16

Should I Open Source My Project If a Better Alternative Exists?

#opensource

1 min read

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