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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 2

No Redis Required: Zero-Config Job Queue for Bun

#bunjs #typescript #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Riccardo Tartaglia

Jan 9

How I build Rikta: a Zero-Config TypeScript Backend Framework

#showdev #typescript #opensource #node

8 min read

Jan 1

Building (and Sharing) an HTML5 Component Library — No Frameworks Required

#webdev #html #frontend #opensource

3 min read

Dec 28 '25

My First Open Source Project: Bringing Flutter Layouts to React

#react #opensource #flutter #webdev

3 min read

freerave

Jan 30

# I built an Encrypted Vault for .env files inside VS Code

#vscode #security #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Sivaram

Jan 27

From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project

#clawdbot #anthropic #ai #opensource

6 min read

Bluezly

Dec 28 '25

KASDVSO – KAS Language (Experimental Runtime in Rust)

#opensource #rust #programminglanguage #scripting

1 min read

Domenico Tenace

Feb 1

Why I Switched to Mullvad VPN: The Open Source VPN 🔒

#privacy #opensource #browser #networking

14 min read

Benjamin Ibrulj

Dec 29 '25

Building a Realistic Banking Dummy Data Generator with Bad-Data Simulation

#dataengineering #python #opensource #sql

1 min read

Jan 26

Git by example - The signature you will not forget! ("missing DCO signoff")

#git #opensource #dco

2 min read

Jan 12

MCP Connect

#backend #opensource #delphi #mcp

7 min read

Li

Dec 28 '25

easy-query: The Most Powerful ORM Subquery for Java

#database #java #opensource #sql

5 min read

Grig

Dec 28 '25

Databasus — open source backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB

#webdev #opensource #database #postgres

3 min read

Dec 28 '25

🚀 Novu | Open-Source Notification Infrastructure

#opensource #typescript #react #fullstack

2 min read

Jack

Feb 1

Mapping the Agent Internet: Where AI Agents Live in 2026

#ai #agents #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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