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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.

submission guidelines

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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Oluwafemi Adelekan

Jun 17 '25

UI Interactions - Seamless Micro-Animations for Better UX

#uxdesign #frontend #figma #opensource

1 min read

Angel Rodriguez

Jun 17 '25

build an email assistant in less than 30 minutes

#automation #tooling #n8n #opensource

5 min read

Jul 11 '25

The Paper Problem at Taxi Ranks – And Why It’s Time We Fix It Digitally

#discuss #opensource #productivity #ai

2 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Jul 10 '25

How to generate PDFs in the browser with Javascript (no server needed)

#javascript #programming #pdf #opensource

11 min read

KL3FT3Z

Jul 10 '25

What does Bloody Mary taste like? I wrote an educational scaremonger virus for cybersecurity specialists.

#programming #cybersecurity #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Noorsimar Singh

Jul 10 '25

Building a YouTube Scraper with Scrapy: A Developer's Journey

#webscraping #python #opensource #youtube

4 min read

Max Shen

Jul 10 '25

How I Fixed GitHub’s 14 Days Repo Traffic Graph

#opensource #github #webdev #frontend

3 min read

Jul 10 '25

📊 SnapDOM - Performance Benchmarks For clientside screenshots

#webdev #javascript #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Jul 10 '25

Join the Revolution: Contribute to Chronos Vault - Securing the Future of Digital Assets

#blockchain #web3 #opensource #security

3 min read

Isha_17Bhardwaj

Jul 10 '25

Building Llama.cpp-Based Local AI Chat Assistant

#ai #beginners #llm #opensource

6 min read

ISNDEV

Jun 10 '25

Goodbye, Mutexes: An Introduction to the C++ Actor Model with `qb`

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource #github

4 min read

hmza

Jul 10 '25

🧰 9 Open Source Tools Every Developer Should Know 🔥

#opensource #tools #devplusplus #programming

3 min read

NocoBase

Jul 10 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Support Custom Aggregation Variables

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

11 min read

h13ris

Jun 6 '25

A Website at Home? Yep, Even Without a Static IP!

#webdev #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Laura Salinas for AWS

Jul 8 '25

Using Strands Agents with Anthropic API 🧬

#aws #opensource #learning #anthropic

3 min read

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