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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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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Jan 21

The Tech Stack for Building AI Apps in 2025

#ai #javascript #opensource #programming

23 min read

Suraj

Feb 14

23 React Projects with Source Code – Learn by Building

#programming #react #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Valerii Strilets

Jan 25

🔐 Implementing Feature Flags in React via Permix

#typescript #webdev #permissions #opensource

2 min read

Eduardo Messuti for StatusPal

Feb 11

Top 16 DevOps Tools for 2025: (Excellent for SREs, Too!)

#webdev #devops #ai #opensource

9 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Mar 6

How We Took GitOps a Step Further

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #git

4 min read

Jan 11

Certificate Generation using OpenSSL locally

#security #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Feb 14

Advanced Layouts with Puck 0.18: Harnessing Grid and Flex Containers

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

18 min read

Jônatas Davi Paganini for TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 19

How to Set Up a Dashboard for Global Energy Data Analytics (Real-World Use Case)

#opensource #database #tutorial #postgres

9 min read

Agastya Malunjkar for GitCorteX

Feb 14

🚀 Supercharge Your GitHub Workflow with GitCorteX: AI-Powered Automation

#github #opensource #ai #gitcortex

1 min read

Bùi Đức Nhật

Feb 14

Ollamazing: Your Free, Open-Source AI Assistant Right in Your Browser

#opensource #webdev #ai #productivity

3 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 14

How I Built Open Source Fastest URL Shortener Ever With Rust

#opensource #programming #tutorial #rust

2 min read

Softqube Technologies

Jan 11

The Essential Role of Communication in Successful Project Management

#opensource #projectmanagemen

3 min read

Micha Hernandez van Leuffen for Fiberplane

Feb 13

Fiberplane: Your Hono-native API Playground, powered by OpenAPI

#hono #cloudflare #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Hasan

Feb 3

DeepSeek R1 + Ollama: 5 Free Open-Source AI Tools You Can Run Locally

#ai #opensource #deepseek #rag

1 min read

Philipp

Jan 24

🐐 DevCv: The G.O.A.T. of CV Builders for Developers

#career #opensource #frontend #tooling

3 min read

Thevie Mortiniera

Feb 13

Google chrome inactive tabs extension

#javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Judy

Jan 24

Cross-Database Migratable Reports--SPL Reporting

#database #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 13

Open Source Data Engineering Landscape 2025

#dataengineering #opensource #apacheddolphinscheduler #database

14 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Feb 13

Metabase 53: Save questions to dashboards, dynamic iframe cards, preemptive caching, and more!

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

7 min read

dage212

Jan 10

SourceCodeDocs website has been established

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Feb 13

DeepSeek Extension for GitHub Copilot in VS Code 🚀

#vscode #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Feb 13

How to remove a file in Node.js?

#javascript #opensource #react #typescript

3 min read

Uday R

Feb 2

My Plans In Open Source This Week

#opensource

2 min read

Feb 2

The Tools and APIs That Made My GeoGuessr 🌍 Project Possible

#webdev #react #opensource #gamedev

4 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Feb 13

OSD 700: Sprint 3 - Code Review / First Problems

#opensource #webdev

3 min read

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