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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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Yuri for Supabase

Jul 18 '25

Supabase Launch Week 15 Hackathon

#webdev #hackathon #opensource #programming

3 min read

Jun 15 '25

GSoC 2025 – Week 2: Comparator and Pull Resistor Implementation

#gsoc2025 #opensource #circuitverse

2 min read

Astrodevil for Entelligence AI

Jul 17 '25

Everything You Need to Know About the Gemini CLI

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

6 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 18 '25

Project of the Week: Supabase

#discuss #opensource #github #programming

3 min read

Guilherme Gonçalves Machado

Jul 18 '25

Gurudev®: Explorations Toward a New Semantic Language and Interoperability Engine

#programming #opensource #learning #development

2 min read

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Jun 14 '25

🚀 Just Launched: InkSpire – A Smart Blogging Platform for Developers

#webdev #ai #react #opensource

1 min read

Juan Viera Garcia

Jul 18 '25

Everything You Need to Know About UTCP, the Alternative to MCP That’s Going Viral 🚀

#mcp #opensource #ai #api

2 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Jul 30 '25

How To Stop Malware Files/Zip to Been Uploaded in your Website

#opensource #npm #github #cybersecurity

1 min read

Jul 26 '25

10 Open Source Tools To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

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Jun 14 '25

Salesforce MCP Server: Integrate AI with Salesforce Using Natural Language

#salesforce #ai #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Jul 18 '25

🧹 Clean Your JavaScript Objects Like a Pro with clean-object-keys

#npm #opensource #node #api

1 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 16 '25

Improved Security Controls and A New Home for Security

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

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Jul 18 '25

NeuroLeveL – A Smarter Discord XP System, Inspired by Perceptrons

#javascript #machinelearning #discord #opensource

3 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14 '25

AttributeStyle Performance Optimization and Benchmarking: The Path to Efficient UI Rendering

#harmonyosnext #arkts #opensource

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Jun 14 '25

AttributeStyle Custom Adapter Development Guide: From Theory to Practice

#harmonyosnext #opensource

3 min read

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