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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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Jan 4

We Built an Open Source Alternative to Laravel Forge - Here's Why

#laravel #webdev #devops #opensource

2 min read

Ertugrul

Jan 3

PromptLedger: Local-first prompt version control

#promptengineering #developertools #python #opensource

4 min read

Jonas Pfalzgraf

Dec 5 '25

Tetris for Logistics: solving the 3D Bin Packing Problem with Rust 🦀

#rust #opensource #algorithms #visualization

2 min read

Nov 30 '25

My Kubernetes SIGs Contribution: Updating Hydrophone’s e2e Test Infrastructure (K8s v1.34.0 + kind v0.30.0)

#opensource #kubernetes #hydrophone #kind

3 min read

Dec 15 '25

Music Monday Spotify Open-Source Sync Bot

#ruby #opensource #automation #music

1 min read

Dec 15 '25

Not Everything Needs to Be a Framework: Why Spawning Processes Still Wins

#architecture #opensource #typescript #pragmaticengineering

3 min read

Jan 3

🚀 ReactJS Developer Portfolio | A Modern Personal Portfolio

#tailwindcss #portfolio #opensource #react

1 min read

Jan 2

🚀 Just shipped Nooxy - turn your Notion workspace into a personal website in 5 mins for free

#opensource #notion #webdev #javascript

7 min read

Dmitry Labintcev

Jan 2

Why I Rebuilt AI Security from Scratch in Pure C

#security #ai #opensource #c

5 min read

Anuroop

Jan 4

I made a python package to store AI generated images along with their context (prompt, model info, etc)

#quickie #python #ai #opensource

1 min read

Alan Tsai

Jan 3

Meta-DAG: Building AI Governance with AI

#showdev #ai #governance #opensource

3 min read

Nov 30 '25

Building a Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Framework: From Demo Datasets to Academic Benchmarks

#llm #machinelearning #benchmarking #opensource

5 min read

Nov 29 '25

Network Namespaces: Isolating VM Networking

#networking #linux #opensource #tooling

6 min read

Cody Churchwell

Dec 1 '25

How I Built a Digital Twin for NASA's $3M Lunar Waste Recycling Challenge

#showdev #programming #opensource #science

4 min read

Dec 1 '25

What is Bridge network driver?

#devops #opensource #docker #cloud

4 min read

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