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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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Ted Yang

Jan 1

I open-sourced an AI app platform where contributors’ features actually ship to the App Store

#showdev #mobile #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jan 1

🚀 AI Interactive Quiz Generator | Engaging Browser-Based Quiz App

#ai #react #opensource #programming

1 min read

Valentin Knabel

Jan 2

Discontinuing of Projects

#career #opensource #programming

1 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 31 '25

Day 37 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #tutorial #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 5

Part 1 | A Scheduler Is More Than Just a “Timer”

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming #bigdata

4 min read

22s Pocket Portfolio for Pocket Portfolio

Jan 6

Stop Scraping Yahoo Finance: A Free, No-Key JSON Endpoint for Stock Data

#javascript #finance #api #opensource

2 min read

Jan 1

A New Year, an Open Source Tool

#documentation #opensource #tooling #api

2 min read

Polliog

Jan 31

🌊 Logtide 0.5.0: Making Observability Simpler and More Powerful

#discuss #programming #opensource #release

4 min read

Aluizio Tomazelli Junior

Feb 3

wifi_manager: a Wi-Fi state manager for ESP-IDF

#esp32 #cpp #iot #opensource

3 min read

commence-software

Feb 3

A Path Not Taken

#programming #opensource #architecture #api

3 min read

ZiLing

Dec 31 '25

I Thought It Was Refactoring My Code. It Actually Wiped It Out.

#ai #python #security #opensource

3 min read

Feb 2

SnapPoint: A Hard Reset for Your Dev Machine

#programming #opensource #go #productivity

5 min read

Michael Amachree

Dec 31 '25

Day 10: Visualize Your 2024 Code Journey (GitHub Tracker)

#github #svelte #yearincode #opensource

1 min read

sonka

Dec 31 '25

How I Built a JSON Repair Library for LLM Streaming (and Made it 1.7x Faster)

#javascript #opensource #ai #webdev

2 min read

idk

Dec 31 '25

Writing a 0-dependency Telegram SDK with auto-generated types

#typescript #node #telegram #opensource

1 min read

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