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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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Ben Gubler

Sep 17

Introducing ts-base: A Modern TypeScript Library Template

#webdev #opensource #typescript #programming

6 min read

NocoBase

Aug 15

Top 18 Open Source AI Agent Projects with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #ai #llm #mcp

14 min read

NocoBase

Aug 15

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Dinesh Thakur for Requestly

Oct 6

Hacktoberfest 2025 Requestly: Build with us this October

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Rabbil Yasar Sajal

Sep 17

The End of .env Chaos: Introducing EnvShield

#security #devops #python #opensource

4 min read

Sep 17

FastOpp: A Student-Friendly Starter for AI Web Apps

#ai #fastapi #opensource #python

3 min read

Sep 6

Introducing node-hooker: WordPress Hooks for Your Node.js App

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Sep 16

From Zero to CRUD - A Tiny Spring Boot H2 Boilerplate You’ll Actually Use

#springboot #boilerplate #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Aug 14

MCP + VS Code: Assisted pentest on an HTB box — from install to first flag

#cybersecurity #automation #opensource #pentest

14 min read

Ben Wang

Aug 14

⚡ Supercharge Your HuggingFace Downloads with MCP-HuggingFetch - 3-5x Faster!

#showdev #ai #node #opensource

3 min read

Aug 14

captureDOM function in snapDOM codebase - part 1

#capturedom #snapdom #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Elanat Framework

Aug 14

Island Architecture in WebForms Core Technology

#webdev #opensource #learning #programming

5 min read

Sep 17

Codebuff, an open-source AI coding assistant.

#codebuff #agents #cli #opensource

2 min read

Chen Debra

Aug 14

Apache DolphinScheduler July Community Newsletter | Key Fixes and Performance Optimizations in Full Swing

#programming #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource

5 min read

sarim2000

Aug 14

The journey of building a privacy-first Android app to 80+ stars and 100+ testers

#ai #android #opensource #fintech

2 min read

Sep 16

Spec Driven Development (SDD) - A initial review

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

13 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Aug 14

SeaTunnel Community Rocked July: New Features, Major Optimizations, All-Star Contributors

#seatunnel #opensource #bigdata #dataengineering

11 min read

Diego Musagy Casas

Aug 27

Using ProtonVPN with OpenVPN on Arch Linux (for Japan servers 🇯🇵)

#linux #archlinux #opensource

3 min read

n9te9

Aug 27

aria - Event Driven websocket framework

#go #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Fernando Paladini

Aug 27

FOSSAI: An Open-Source Manifesto Against Digital Inequality — v0.1

#programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 14

Tools & Software for Tracking Milestones (Jira, MS Project, Trello, etc.)

#opensource #webdev #programming #ai

3 min read

Scott Griffiths

Aug 14

Building a Unified AI Safety Platform

#ai #security #opensource #python

5 min read

joy larkin

Aug 13

The Urgency of Open Source AI

#opensource #ai #openmodels

2 min read

Aug 13

"Stop Breaking Context: Smarter Text Chunking for Python NLP Projects"

#python #nlp #opensource #rag

2 min read

Aug 13

Tide42 Release 1.2.2 (stable)

#programming #python #opensource #linux

2 min read

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