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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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Jan 26

I built the CMS I always wanted for my personal sites

#showdev #webdev #php #opensource

10 min read

Shayan M Hussain

Jan 27

One rate limiter for Express, NestJS, and Bun published

#programming #node #npm #opensource

1 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 22 '25

Day 29 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #productivity #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

rasjonell

Jan 26

DynamoDB Workflows: stop rewriting incident scripts (with DynamoLens)

#aws #dynamodb #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Jan 24

I Lost 25% of a Form by Scrolling Up. Nobody Noticed.

#webdev #ux #reliability #opensource

3 min read

Juan Denis

Jan 24

Why I Built an Open Source SEO Plugin in 2026

#wordpress #seo #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jan 26

From 10,000 to 18: Drastically Improving Luau Bytecode Decompilation Quality

#algorithms #codequality #gamedev #opensource

19 min read

Stepan Romankov

Jan 26

Testing Telegram Bots in CI/CD: Zero Tokens Required

#rust #testing #opensource #telegram

8 min read

aelassas

Jan 26

Servy vs. NSSM vs. WinSW

#devops #opensource #programming #microsoft

3 min read

Mehmet

Dec 22 '25

I Built a Type-Safe JSON-LD Generator for Next.js to Automate SEO

#nextjs #typescript #seo #opensource

2 min read

Dec 23 '25

Rsbuild in Refly codebase.

#opensource #rsbuild #refly #config

2 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Dec 22 '25

Release Apache APISIX Ingress Controller 2.0

#ingress #api #apigateway #opensource

4 min read

Dec 22 '25

Data-Architect-Master-Professional-Workbook

#python #dataengineering #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Favoured Anuanatata

Dec 22 '25

Improving a Tutorial That Failed During Testing

#testing #documentation #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Dec 26 '25

I Built an MCP Server to Check Domain Availability from AI Assistants

#ai #typescript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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