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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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Muhammed Rasin O M

Dec 16 '25

How I Built a "Story-to-Data" Engine in Python (Because Faker Wasn't Enough)

#python #datascience #opensource #database

3 min read

i-icc

Dec 13 '25

Announcing "PNGpng": A Pngyu Alternative for macOS 15 Sequoia

#productivity #opensource #tooling #beginners

1 min read

RelunSec

Dec 12 '25

Introducing dssrf: A Safe‑by‑Construction SSRF Defense Library for Node.js

#javascript #security #opensource #node

1 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Dec 12 '25

# Release 0.4 Week 2: Fixing a Windows Bug in Nextcloud Desktop Client

#devjournal #learning #opensource #cpp

3 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Dec 12 '25

Release 0.4: Contributing a New Feature to OpenCTI - A Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

#opensource #programming #learning #cybersecurity

3 min read

Jan 16

How to Add an AI Agent to Your React App in 10 Minutes

#react #ai #opensource #webdev

7 min read

hold 2070

Dec 12 '25

I built a fast and free online tool for developers (JSON, Base64, UUID)

#webdev #javascript #nocode #opensource

1 min read

Jeff Smith

Jan 16

I Built a TypeScript SDK for John Deere Because Nobody Else Did

#typescript #opensource #agriculture #javascript

1 min read

Dec 12 '25

Planning to solve a new larger project

#opensource #osd600 #release0dot4

1 min read

WIOWIZ Technologies

Jan 16

VHE: GPU-Accelerated Gate-Level Simulation at Zero License Cost

#dv #gpu #opensource #semiconductor

2 min read

Aubrey D

Dec 12 '25

Planning My Final Open Source Contribution

#devjournal #opensource #learning #python

2 min read

Mike Lane

Dec 12 '25

Announcing Dioxide v1.0.0: Delightful Dependency Injection for Python

#python #rust #dependencyinjection #opensource

3 min read

Dec 12 '25

Progressing in Bifrost project

#opensource #llm #osd600 #release0dot4

2 min read

Jan 16

What I Learned from Steve Yegge's Gas Town — And a Small Tool for Solo Developers

#ai #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Alexander Alten

Jan 2

S3-Native Kafka Alternatives: What's Actually Different

#kafka #dataengineering #opensource #devops

3 min read

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