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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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MZRDev

Apr 19

Easily showcase your skills on GitHub with clean SVG icons

#github #opensource #webdev #frontend

1 min read

Apr 19

The Unit Economics of Speech-to-Text Just Collapsed

#ai #opensource #webdev #machinelearning

3 min read

Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission

May 17

I built a real-time ASL interpreter for the Gemma4 challenge, no cloud needed

#devchallenge #gemmachallenge #gemma #opensource

4 min read

kamin deng

Apr 19

One C++ Interface Across Linux and Multiple RTOSes: The Design Value of dp_sdk_core

#showdev #architecture #iot #opensource

8 min read

Apr 19

I Built a Free OLED Pixel Editor for Arduino & ESP32 🖊

#showdev #webdev #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Hiro-Chiba

Apr 19

Tired of Claude Code Ignoring Your CLAUDE.md? I Built claudemd-guard

#showdev #claude #ai #opensource

2 min read

HalalFrFr

Apr 19

Building a Windows yt-dlp GUI with Tauri, React, and Rust

#showdev #tauri #opensource #react

3 min read

Future Systems Lab

Apr 19

What if your shadow work was recorded on-chain?

#web3 #mentalhealth #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

May 23

Two tiny deployment drift bugs: env vars added, templates forgotten

#devops #githubactions #docker #opensource

2 min read

Gopimadhav Ponnala

Apr 19

Decoding Devnovate: Architecting a Unified Digital Ecosystem

#showdev #architecture #opensource #softwareengineering

5 min read

lu1tr0n

Apr 19

Distros Linux más atractivas de 2026: GNOME, KDE y Hyprland

#opensource #linux #programming #devops

8 min read

GDS K S

May 22

Google redesigned 13 Workspace icons last week. Here is where to grab the new SVGs.

#design #webdev #opensource #javascript

6 min read

k38f

Apr 16

How I built a progress bar library in 300 lines of Python

#python #tutorial #cli #opensource

6 min read

Hardik Kanajariya

Apr 20

Building KiranaMitra: An Offline-First POS App for Indian Kirana Stores with React Native

#reactnative #typescript #opensource #mobile

4 min read

Diego Garcia Brisa

May 12

Why I built ts-match: TypeScript branching in the era of coding agents

#ai #webdev #typescript #opensource

7 min read

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