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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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Ourai L.

Jan 31

I Submitted Two Pull Requests to the Answer Platform

#opensource #webdev #frontend

6 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 16

🔥Best alternative to HTMX

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Juraj K.

Dec 24 '24

From Idea to Code: How I Built a Python Text Editor

#python #opensource #softwaredevelopment #software

2 min read

Jan 27

Docker Volume Command

#docker #opensource #devops #cloud

7 min read

Adewale Abati for Block Open Source

Jan 27

Introducing codename goose

#programming #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jan 27

Statichunt: A Hub for Designers, Developers, and Entrepreneurs

#astro #nextjs #nocode #opensource

1 min read

Jan 27

Database Mess? Here's How to Fix It!

#go #designpatterns #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Kidd Yu

Jan 6

Simplify Your Admin Panel Setup with Basemulti: A Developer-First Solution

#nocode #opensource #saas #productivity

3 min read

Jan 6

Introducing AsmJamShield: A Professional-Grade Cybersecurity Tool

#cybersecurity #assemblyprogramming #networking #opensource

3 min read

Jan 16

Contribute to imagination-to-real in open-source sprint!

#opensource #python #beginners #robotics

1 min read

Gittech

Feb 18

30+ Mind-Blowing GitHub Repositories You Need to Check Out! 🚀

#ai #github #opensource #webdev

12 min read

Sleeyax

Dec 23 '24

Dynamic string validation using go's text/template package

#go #programming #opensource #validation

1 min read

BigBang001

Dec 28 '24

🔮 Daytona + EchoBrain – AI Development Reimagined

#opensource #daytona #ai #python

3 min read

Jan 22

💡 The Untold History of GitHub Awesome-Lists 🤯

#github #programming #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Prathamesh Devadiga

Jan 26

DeepSeek-R1 : internals made easy 🐋

#deeplearning #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Jan 26

Pulumi Wasm/Rust devlog #5

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

2 min read

Astrodevil

Jan 25

Snowflake vs. Databricks: Building Your Data Stack with Kestra🚀🌩️🧑‍💻

#cloud #opensource #devops #programming

8 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 26

Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#beginners #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jan 26

Release 0.46.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - getting started on 2025

#githubaction #opensource #release

2 min read

Open Source SPL

Jan 26

Something Could Double the Development Efficiency of Java Programmers

#java #programming #opensource #esproc

6 min read

dilveteam

Jan 25

I’m building a community-driven list of Awesome European Tech 🇪🇺

#webdev #programming #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Arindam Majumder

Jan 21

5 Open Source Tools for Backend Developers in 2025

#backend #webdev #opensource #javascript

8 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 14

Getting Started with the Open Source AI Hackathon

#hackathon #opensource #ai #tutorial

4 min read

Gabriel A. Micheal

Jan 25

🔥Announcing Auto-I8LN: Simplify Flutter Internationalization & Localization

#flutter #dart #localization #opensource

1 min read

fast-d3v

Jan 3

Procrastinator's Guide to Glory: Open Source Projects That Turn Wasted Time Into Career Gold ⭐️

#programming #ai #python #opensource

5 min read

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