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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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uuware

Feb 8

Lupine.js - The Lightweight Frontend & Efficient Backend Framework

#javascript #webdev #opensource #react

2 min read

Griffin

Jan 15

I Built the First AI-Native Build System

#opensource #programming #devops #productivity

4 min read

Jan 20

A New Era of Determinism

#ai #programming #opensource #rag

8 min read

Gaurav Chile | InfraForgeLabs

Jan 16

Why Debugging Is the Real Skill Behind DevOps

#playwright #devops #opensource #learning

2 min read

Yazeed Al Oyoun

Feb 5

I built a CLI for the process/port commands I could never remember

#showdev #opensource #cli #productivity

1 min read

Touseef Ibn Khaleel

Jan 15

From Lag Spike to Lightning Fast: The Engineering Behind Gaze Guard's Massive Performance Overhaul

#webdev #ai #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Feb 18

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: February 11–17, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

6 min read

Mack

Feb 16

I Built a Free Email Signature Generator in a Day — No Backend Required

#webdev #html #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Feb 18

GStreamer

#architecture #opensource #programming #tutorial

4 min read

Max

Jan 15

What Happened When I Let the Internet Decide What Code Gets Merged (Week 1)

#opensource #javascript #webdev #github

5 min read

Jan 15

Config Manager for Laravel: transitioning the Base to MIT and introducing the Pro edition

#laravel #php #devtools #opensource

3 min read

Jan 15

InAppAI: Open-Source AI Agents for React Apps

#ai #react #opensource

6 min read

Jelmer Migchelbrink

Jan 15

How We Generate 600M+ Cold Email Variations From One Template (Open Source)

#javascript #typescript #opensource #coldemail

2 min read

Vaishnav Ghenge

Feb 18

django-silky: A Modern Fork of django-silk with Dark Mode, D3 Charts, and N+1 Detection

#django #python #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Janada

Feb 7

An Advanced, Multimodal AI Social Media Ecosystem

#showdev #ai #backend #opensource

2 min read

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