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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 11

Inside a Scholarly Search Engine: Indexing, Ranking, and Retrieval

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

3 min read

Oleksandra

Dec 10 '25

Planning My Next Open-Source Contributions

#devjournal #tooling #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Makanju Oluwafemi

Jan 9

Laid Off on the First Workday of the Year—and What Came Next

#webdev #programming #opensource #devrel

3 min read

Rootflo Engineering

Dec 9 '25

From Monolith to MicroAgents: Architecting Multi-Agent AI Systems

#opensource #middleware #ai #software

4 min read

Shubh

Dec 9 '25

Built DockMate: A terminal UI for Docker (27 stars in 3 days)

#devops #docker #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Dec 9 '25

Open Xanadu

#webdev #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Rushikesh Bodakhe

Jan 13

Today’s Update: Improved Landing Page Animations + Better Desktop Experience in Vizora

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jan 13

Logger in Claude-Mem codebase.

#opensource #claudemem #mem #ai

4 min read

Dec 9 '25

Anki powered with AI open-source projec

#showdev #learning #opensource #ai

3 min read

Jan 1

Building a Production-Ready Dockerized MERN E-commerce App (StyleNest)

#react #mern #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jan 13

Why Your API Gateway Can't Handle AI Governance (And What Can)

#programming #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Dec 10 '25

What if your browser tabs could talk to you

#discuss #productivity #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Jan 13

OpenCode: tools, commands, agents y workflows

#ai #code #opensource

6 min read

Dec 10 '25

Attendance Portal V2: The Ultimate Open-Source Employee Management System Built with React & Firebase

#showdev #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

Nithya Gujiluva Ravindran

Dec 23 '25

🚀 Google Auth Website — A Production-Ready Boilerplate with Google SSO & Email Auth

#opensource #sso #authentication #oauth

2 min read

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