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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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🚀 Create Your Own LLM from Scratch with create-llm

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #npm

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Jul 30 '25

React Authentication Made Easy with Keycloak

#keycloak #security #react #opensource

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Jul 7 '25

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#programming #java #networking #opensource

1 min read

Ismoiljon Umarov

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I put a real-time 3D Engine in my PHP app.

#php #laravel #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Jakub Andrzejewski

Aug 4 '25

The reality of Open Source

#opensource #webdev #programming #beginners

3 min read

Aditya Pratap Bhuyan

Jul 6 '25

Unraveling the Challenges of GNU Hurd: Understanding its Complexities and Limitations as a Microkernel-based Operating System

#opensource #gnu #gnuhurd #microkernel

4 min read

Akash B

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#ai #machinelearning #tech #opensource

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Jul 6 '25

How to Detect Rooted or Jailbroken Devices in Flutter Using mobile_root_checker Plugin

#mobile #cybersecurity #flutter #opensource

2 min read

Suraj Arya

Jul 6 '25

Nvidia's Newton is dawn of new AI world?

#discuss #ai #opensource #news

1 min read

Aug 24 '25

10 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 17 '25

Algolia Connector for Supabase

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Zoe

Jul 7 '25

Hux UI: A Flutter component library that actually solves your frontend problems

#flutter #ui #widget #opensource

3 min read

Peter H. Boling

Aug 9 '25

Continuity: Moving RubyGems to Org

#opensource

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Bonnie for CopilotKit

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Build a Fullstack Stock Portfolio Agent with CrewAI and AG-UI

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

25 min read

Aug 8 '25

A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Docs as Code & CI/CD Pipelines

#documentation #cicd #githubactions #opensource

4 min read

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