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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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Rafa Mori

Jul 13 '25

🚀 LookAtni File Markers — Invisible Markers to Structure Your Files Like Magic

#ai #devops #vscode #opensource

1 min read

Rafa Mori

Jul 13 '25

🚀 LookAtni File Markers — Marcadores invisíveis para estruturar seus arquivos como mágica

#ai #devops #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Jul 12 '25

AutoBE, Backend No-Coding Agent Achieving 100% Compilation Success (Open Source)

#ai #nocode #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jun 22 '25

Day 1 of My Spring Boot Multitenancy Starter: Contexts, Filters, and Auto-Config

#java #springboot #multitenancy #opensource

1 min read

Randall

Jul 12 '25

How I Host a Bot in 45,000 Discord Servers For Free

#discord #javascript #opensource #programming

9 min read

Adrian Rubio-Punal

Jun 11 '25

I'm 13 and I Built an AI PDF Reader

#ai #opensource #buildinpublic #programming

1 min read

Jul 12 '25

Contributing to PyPI

#python #opensource #programming

1 min read

Stephen Adebayo

Jul 12 '25

🚀 Integrating Video Calls in React Native with Jitsi Meet

#webdev #javascript #reactnative #opensource

1 min read

Jul 12 '25

Enhanced Paperless-NGX with Paddle OCR + LLM Pipeline

#python #docker #llm #opensource

3 min read

Jul 12 '25

My Journey into System Design: A Back-End Developer's Exploration

#systemdesign #python #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Jul 12 '25

How GSSoC Helped Me Build My Portfolio as a Frontend Developer

#webdev #career #opensource #learning

2 min read

Jul 27 '25

From Zero to Pro Contributor – A beginner-friendly open source session 💻

#discuss #opensource #programming #contributorswanted

1 min read

Megh Rana

Jul 12 '25

Booting Modern Android on Ancient Hardware: How I Revived a Dead Device with Android 13

#android #opensource #androiddev #retrotech

9 min read

Jul 12 '25

AWS IOT: How to get a public URL instantly using the open source Tunnelmole

#aws #publicurl #iot #opensource

6 min read

Jul 12 '25

Remotely Access an IoT Device Instantly with Tunnelmole

#iot #publicurl #server #opensource

6 min read

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