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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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freerave

Jan 24

I Built a VS Code Extension to End "README Friction" (And then I broke my own README) 🤦‍♂️

#vscode #opensource #productivity #markdown

2 min read

Dec 31 '25

The Context Graph Manifesto

#ai #programming #opensource #rag

13 min read

zayoka

Dec 24 '25

GenresFox Version 0.4.1 Update

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

xyz abc

Dec 20 '25

10 Insanely Useful Fake Data & Mockup Generators Every Developer Needs in 2025 (All Free, No Signup)

#productivity #programming #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Soufyan

Dec 20 '25

mkarchi v0.1.4 — Turning AI-generated project ideas into real code structures

#tooling #opensource #ai #python

1 min read

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Dec 20 '25

As a Student, I Built a Startup to Answer One Simple Question: Where Can I Watch This Anime?

#webdev #startup #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Rost

Dec 19 '25

Snap vs Flatpak: Ultimate Guide for 2025

#linux #devops #opensource

9 min read

Anirudha Puthraya

Dec 20 '25

I’m Proposing an Offline-First Computing Standard — Here’s Why

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Nick - Ngoc Loc Coc

Jan 16

Stop paying for ngrok! 🛑 Meet NPort: The Free Open Source Alternative

#opensource #javascript #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Varshith V Hegde

Dec 30 '25

I Built a Form Backend in a Weekend Because Paying $20/Month for Contact Forms is Stupid

#opensource #saas #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Dec 20 '25

What Exactly Is the “Bazel Ecosystem”?

#tooling #devops #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Jan 23

Building a Lightweight Kubernetes Desktop Client GUI with Tauri and Rust

#kubernetes #rust #tauri #opensource

2 min read

Jan 23

A Clean and Practical Arch Linux Installation Approach (UEFI)

#linux #archlinux #opensource #programming

1 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Dec 19 '25

Inside Apache SeaTunnel CDC: How the System Really Works

#programming #bigdata #opensource #seatunnel

10 min read

Dec 19 '25

Spectrum-Eager: A Minimal Jekyll Theme for Your Personal Site

#jekyll #webdev #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

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