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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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Zoe

Jul 7 '25

Building WCAG-Compliant Flutter Components: Automating Contrast Calculations

#flutter #a11y #wcag #opensource

4 min read

Jul 2 '25

The Best Free ngrok Alternative: Meet Tunnelmole (Open Source & Easy to Use)

#ngrok #opensource #tunneling #webhooks

5 min read

Sharon

Jun 4 '25

What Is a WAF—and Why Your Web App Needs One

#websecurity #waf #safeline #opensource

3 min read

Accio by Alibaba Group

Jul 4 '25

Implementing Multi-Agent AI for B2B Procurement Search

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #database

1 min read

Jul 7 '25

Stop using FlatList — Try react-native-unilist for faster list rendering in React Native

#reactnative #javascript #opensource #devcommunity

1 min read

May 30 '25

How I Built CTF Write-up Builder: Solving My Own Documentation Nightmare with Next.js + AI

#typescript #opensource #writeup #ctf

3 min read

Veliswa_Boya 🇿🇦 for AWS

Jul 3 '25

Adding Real-Time Weather Search to my City Explorer with MCP

#ai #mcp #opensource #aws

6 min read

May 30 '25

Day 2 of #30DaysRHCSAChallenge – Who Gave the Intern sudo?!

#linux #cloudwhistler #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Brandon Seymour

May 30 '25

Dell Technologies World 2025 Kickoff: A Front Row Seat to the Future of AI

#ai #dell #infrastructure #opensource

2 min read

TerraformMonkey

Jul 3 '25

🧭 Navigating the Complexity of Modules in Terraform on Day 2

#devops #terraform #opensource #aws

3 min read

Jul 3 '25

Prevent SLA Breaches in JIRA with AI: Smart Ticket Prioritization in Python

#opensource #ai #webdev #python

1 min read

Jul 3 '25

Build a Smart SLA Dashboard with Python: Track Breaches, Team Trends & Support KPIs

#python #opensource #datascience #webdev

1 min read

May 30 '25

Curating the Best No-Code Tools of 2025 – Introducing Awesome No-Code Tools

#nocode #opensource #productivity #vibecoding

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 30 '25

🐧Real-World Linux: A Beginner's Journey Through the Command Line

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #cloud

6 min read

Jul 3 '25

📦 I Built a Free, Open-Source Invoice PDF Generator (Looking for Contributors!)

#opensource #angular #freeinvoice #ngrx

2 min read

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