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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.

submission guidelines

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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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Kyle Homen

Oct 17 '25

Hacktoberfest Week 2

#hacktoberfest #python #opensource

2 min read

Oleksandra

Nov 20 '25

My Open-Source Contribution - Working on TypeScript-ESLint

#opensource #tooling #typescript

2 min read

ZigRazor

Nov 10 '25

Analyzing Network Infrastructure Vulnerabilities with CXXGraph: A Practical Guide

#cpp #graphs #algorithms #opensource

5 min read

Nov 20 '25

Developer Tooling #008

#programming #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Nov 20 '25

DragonMemory: Neural Sequence Compression for Production RAG

#rag #llm #opensource #deeplearning

8 min read

Ivan Juren

Nov 9 '25

Good Intentions Aren’t Enough — Measure!

#java #performance #opensource

3 min read

Denis Makushevskii

Nov 9 '25

Cohere in .NET in 10 Minutes: Microsoft.Extensions.AI + the Cohere.Extensions.AI NuGet Package

#dotnet #ai #opensource

3 min read

Nov 10 '25

Reinventing the Wheel: A Reflection on Software Development and Open Source

#discuss #opensource #softwaredevelopment #php

3 min read

Emanuele Strazzullo

Oct 21 '25

How I built a CLI tool to simplify my daily terminal workflow

#programming #cli #opensource #python

3 min read

canonical

Nov 20 '25

Why the Nop Platform Sticks with XML Instead of JSON or YAML

#designpatterns #programming #opensource #xml

5 min read

Nov 20 '25

📜 Prototype of Voxel Terrain Generation in Godot 4

#godot #tool #opensource #gamedev

1 min read

Stelixx Insider

Nov 10 '25

SeaweedFS: A High-Scalability Distributed File System for Billions of Files

#backend #opensource #architecture #performance

1 min read

Water Run

Nov 9 '25

SimpSave 10: A “ready-to-use” lightweight database, now supporting multiple engine options (including SQLite).

#python #database #opensource

8 min read

justhiro

Nov 9 '25

Building a Decision-Making CLI Tool in Rust: "should-i"

#rust #cli #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Nov 9 '25

ArtistAssistApp New Features and Improvements – November 2025

#showdev #opensource #pwa #react

3 min read

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