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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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Feb 8

Localising your React app the "Tailwind" way: no keys & no JSON, just code

#react #typescript #opensource #localisation

4 min read

Evgeniy

Feb 4

I brought C++23 to Windows 95 because Microsoft told me my PC was too old

#cpp #programming #devchallenge #opensource

13 min read

SnowyCow

Jan 7

The Rise of MicroSlop

#ai #opensource #career #software

5 min read

Jan 7

OpenSIPS: The Engine Powering Modern Real-Time Communication

#architecture #backend #networking #opensource

5 min read

Feb 10

🎙️ I built a voice chat app because I wanted to talk to my son while we play online

#showdev #opensource #privacy #webdev

2 min read

RapidKit

Feb 10

Build Your First AI Agent with RapidKit in 10 Minutes

#rapidkit #opensource #ai #openai

10 min read

Don

Jan 6

ClovaLink — Enterprise File Storage without the price tag

#opensource #rust #enterprise #devops

1 min read

DNSZLSK

Feb 9

I built a free npm/PyPI supply chain scanner - looking for testers

#security #javascript #opensource #supplychain

4 min read

Jan 6

Resend package in Inbox Zero codebase.

#opensource #inboxzero #email #monorepo

4 min read

Jan 11

Stop using web search for every little thing in AI agents

#ai #webdev #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Juddiy

Jan 7

The "Visual Debt" of Open Source: Why Your Readme is Leaking Users

#productivity #design #opensource #dx

3 min read

Amir Reza Dalir for DiPhyx

Feb 10

Eliminate 80% of Nuxt store boilerplate with a single createStore call

#vue #nuxt #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Yanko Alexandrov

Feb 10

I Built a Full Voice Pipeline on a €399 Edge AI Box (Whisper + Kokoro on Tensor Cores)

#ai #nvidia #opensource #edgecomputing

2 min read

Jan 6

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: December 30, 2025 – January 5, 2026

#news #database #dataengineering #opensource

4 min read

Nunc

Feb 10

I Built a Company Run Entirely by AI Agents. Here's How (and What Went Wrong).

#ai #agents #opensource #experiment

9 min read

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