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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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Dec 1 '25

Building a Production-Ready GNOME Extension with Kiro: From CLI to GUI in Record Time

#kiro #gnome #linux #opensource

3 min read

Rolan Lobo

Nov 10 '25

The Great Multimedia Steganography Debugging Saga: When Three Bugs Walk Into a Bar (And One Was Pretending to Be Lossless)

#python #devchallenge #opensource #productivity

6 min read

ryan

Dec 2 '25

I'm 19 and building ZK identity for Nostr. Looking for co-founders.

#nostr #zeroknowledge #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

Oct 29 '25

fp-ts library in Hoppscotch codebase.

#opensource #hoppscotch #either #scala

3 min read

CodeByAmit

Oct 28 '25

ProjectMaker For Devs

#fullstack #tooling #automation #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

WH yang

Nov 10 '25

Hacktoberfest 2025

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Ruqaiya

Nov 11 '25

AI/ML Trends Report

#agenticapp #agentblogreport #opensource #parallelagent

5 min read

Dec 2 '25

I Skipped My Birthday to Give Go Its First Real ML Framework

#go #machinelearning #opensource #deeplearning

4 min read

Raman

Oct 28 '25

Kryypto, a keyboard-driven python text editor.

#python #github #programming #opensource

1 min read

Dec 2 '25

SassCandy Free & Open Source Next.js Template for SaaS Projects

#nextjs #saas #startup #opensource

2 min read

Oct 27 '25

Code Reading Analysis – Repomix Ignore Feature

#code #git #opensource

2 min read

Nov 29 '25

Go's Regexp is Slow. So I Built My Own - up to 3000x Faster

#go #performance #regex #opensource

8 min read

Nov 2 '25

How I Crushed Timestamp Storage by 56% with Bit Packing

#java #tooling #opensource #data

4 min read

Nov 11 '25

🧩 How I Built a Lightweight Scroll Animation Library for React

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Stelixx Insider

Nov 11 '25

Tenacity: A Free, Open-Source Audio Editor and Recorder for Cross-Platform Use

#software #opensource #tooling #linux

1 min read

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