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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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tsmztech

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

Unknownerror-404

Jul 18 '25

NeuroLeveL – A Smarter Discord XP System, Inspired by Perceptrons

#javascript #machinelearning #discord #opensource

3 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14 '25

AttributeStyle Custom Adapter Development Guide: From Theory to Practice

#harmonyosnext #opensource

3 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14 '25

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

#harmonyosnext #arkts #opensource

4 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14 '25

AttributeStyle Core Technology Analysis: UI Style Reuse Solution Based on HarmonyOS NEXT

#opensource #harmonyosnext #arkts

2 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14 '25

AttributeStyle State Management System: Building Responsive UI Interaction Experiences

#opensource #harmonyos #arkts

3 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14 '25

AttributeStyle Style Composition Mechanism: Building a Flexible and Reusable UI Style System

#harmonyosnext #opensource #arkts

3 min read

Cahyanudien Aziz Saputra

Jul 18 '25

Transform Your Phone Into a Wireless Microphone: Introducing FastiMic

#audiostreaming #software #opensource

4 min read

Raj Kumar

Jul 18 '25

Introducing react-number-rating – A 1–10 React Rating Component for Better UI

#react #javascript #npm #opensource

2 min read

Hugo Jose

Jul 18 '25

Showcase: NaturalCron — Human-readable recurrence expressions for .NET

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

1 min read

Jul 18 '25

AI-Powered Quiz Generator - SyllabusQuiz

#ai #opensource #edtech #python

2 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Jul 17 '25

The untold story behind the popular open-source PDF library—react-pdf

#opensource #react #pdf #github

3 min read

hopsayer

Jul 17 '25

mpv vs VLC: Making mpv Comfortable to Use

#linux #opensource #tutorial #performance

2 min read

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