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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.

submission guidelines

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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SilentPuck

Jul 28 '25

I built SilentGPT – a terminal-based ChatGPT client in C with encrypted chat history

#c #opensource #privacy #terminal

1 min read

Aug 31 '25

I built an Offline PDF to Image Converter (No Uploads, No Data Leaks)

#webdev #opensource #sideprojects #programming

1 min read

Aug 23 '25

I built a bundle-saving UI tool and open-sourced it 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

BrunoMagno

Aug 10 '25

Stop Wasting Time on Boilerplate: Start Any Node.js Project in Seconds

#node #resources #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jayant Harilela

Aug 1 '25

Revolutionizing Social Dynamics: How AgentSociety Transforms AI Simulations

#ray #llms #opensource #aiframework

10 min read

Browsely

Aug 20 '25

Pivoting from Auth0 to PHP Symfony

#php #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Aug 31 '25

Java Projects are hidden Gems

#java #go #opensource

2 min read

Aug 31 '25

🚀 jQuery.scrollPaging v1.1.0 – Infinite Scroll Made Easy

#javascript #jquery #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Aug 31 '25

Stop leaking .env files - try Secretsnap (free CLI)

#security #opensource #cli #programming

1 min read

Raimon

Aug 31 '25

Discover free online courses with certificates! 🎓✨

#certification #opensource #programming

1 min read

Aug 31 '25

How to Get a Webhook Online: A Developer's Guide

#webhook #node #javascript #opensource

8 min read

Jul 28 '25

🛠️ How I Migrated Data from Solr to Elasticsearch Using Python

#elasticsearch #devops #python #opensource

3 min read

Muhammed Sabith

Aug 30 '25

My first VS Code Extension

#programming #javascript #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Aug 29 '25

Google Summer of Code 2025 Final Report (Kotlin Foundation)

#kotlin #opensource #gradle

5 min read

Jul 28 '25

LWRE: A Lightweight Java Rule Engine for Scalable, Dynamic Business Logic

#java #dsl #ruleengine #opensource

4 min read

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