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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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Emir Taner

Dec 4

How Businesses Are Quietly Becoming Crypto-Native (And Why It’s Happening Faster Than You Think)

#blockchain #web3 #career #opensource

2 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Nov 26

From Newcomer to Power Contributor: South Korea’s Doyeon Kim Shines in Apache SeaTunnel in Just Six Months

#community #beginners #opensource #career

5 min read

Dec 15

Music Monday Spotify Open-Source Sync Bot

#ruby #opensource #automation #music

2 min read

Nov 21

Introducing SSH Secure Audit: A Lightweight Open-Source SSH Security Scanner for Linux

#linux #opensource #security #devops

1 min read

adamydwang

Dec 5

Deploy Nano Banana MCP Service in 5 Minutes: Integrate AI Image Generation into Your Workflow

#ai #tutorial #opensource #nanobanana

5 min read

Dec 13

Play lichess from your terminal

#git #rust #chess #opensource

1 min read

Michael Gerzabek

Nov 24

Killing the Chaos – How LaravelUi5 Makes Backends and Frontends Speak the Same Language

#laravel #architecture #frontend #opensource

5 min read

Chen Debra

Nov 20

Full Final Report | Adding a gRPC Plugin to Apache DolphinScheduler

#apachedolphinscheduler #grpc #github #opensource

3 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Nov 20

How Does Apache SeaTunnel Convert CDC Streams to Append-Only Mode?

#apacheseatunnel #bigdata #opensource #developer

4 min read

Tongyi Lab

Nov 21

Nov21, 2025 | The Tongyi Weekly: Your weekly dose of cutting-edge AI from Tongyi Lab

#ai #opensource #programming #llm

5 min read

Yilia

Nov 20

Building an AI Agent Traffic Management Platform: APISIX AI Gateway in Practice

#ai #apigateway #opensource #api

9 min read

Steven Hur

Dec 12

Escaping Localhost

#beginners #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Nov 19

🍹 Introducing Happy Hour API — A Simple Way to Add Local Drink Deals to Your App

#webdev #opensource #sideprojects #api

1 min read

Nov 21

I Built a React Autocomplete Component (and Reduced it from 5MB to 35KB)

#react #typescript #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Dec 12

I Built a Rust Data Engine That Hit #1 Trending — Here's What Actually Worked

#rust #data #opensource #ai

3 min read

Adrián Janočko

Dec 12

Tired of Vue toast libraries, so I built my own (headless, Vue 3, TS-first)

#vue #toast #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Artemas

Dec 11

Raffi: a modern Stremio‑compatible streaming client I built at 16

#webdev #svelte #go #opensource

2 min read

Anes1032

Dec 12

Built an Audit System in a Single 15MB Binary That Even DBAs Can't Fool

#database #opensource #go #distributedsystems

4 min read

NocoBase

Nov 20

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Add AI employee for configuring chart

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Nov 24

Democratizing AI: Teaching LLMs to Think with Simple Steps

#ai #llm #programming #opensource

2 min read

OB

Nov 20

OmniDictate v2.0: The Future of Local Dictation on Windows

#showdev #privacy #opensource #ai

2 min read

Qodex

Nov 20

Turn your code into OpenAPI 3.0 docs in seconds

#api #opensource #tooling #automation

2 min read

Ivan G.

Dec 2

How I decided to revive my project that was stale for 5 years...

#opensource #github #webdev #sideprojects

3 min read

Alexandr Bandurchin for Uptrace

Nov 20

OpenTelemetry Filelog Receiver

#monitoring #opensource #kubernetes #devops

9 min read

Dec 2

I open sourced Introlix - an AI research platform

#ai #opensource #llm #agents

2 min read

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