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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 2

Stop Configuring, Start Coding: The Ultimate Next.js 16 PWA Boilerplate 🚀....... Simple WebApp - Heavstal Tech™

#nextjs #pwa #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Youssef Khouidi

Nov 29 '25

NPM = Wild Wild West: It's Time to Stop the Madness

#supplychainsecurity #javascript #opensource #npm

3 min read

gezilinll

Jan 2

Proteus: The AI-native editor for multimodal creation

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

Somedev

Nov 29 '25

Shitshell -- A shell for nerds

#linux #opensource #shell #c

1 min read

Dmitry Labintcev

Jan 2

SENTINEL IMMUNE — Biological Immunity for IT Security

#security #opensource #cybersecurity #kernel

2 min read

Dec 31 '25

Stop Building Side Projects Like Tutorials

#discuss #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Tongyi Lab

Nov 28 '25

Nov28, 2025 | The Tongyi Weekly: Your weekly dose of cutting-edge AI from Tongyi Lab

#news #ai #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

Steven Hur

Nov 28 '25

Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone - Plan for the Final Stretch

#python #devjournal #datascience #opensource

2 min read

Jan 1

The New Frontier: 2026 DevOps Trends You Can’t Ignore

#devops #ai #aiops #opensource

2 min read

Nov 28 '25

Components structure in Umami codebase - Part 1.4

#umami #opensource #components #structure

3 min read

Rewired89

Jan 2

We built a Windows app that blocks trackers and encrypts your traffic automatically

#security #privacy #rust #opensource

1 min read

Dec 31 '25

Janitor AI: Mistakes I Made and What I’d Do Differently

#discuss #ai #developer #opensource

6 min read

Melnus

Nov 28 '25

[ShowDev] I Built an Open-Source "Audit Tool" to Detect Government Waste Using Python & Math 🐍📊

#showdev #python #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Ivan Dalmet for BearStudio

Dec 2 '25

Building a Full-Stack App Shouldn’t Feel Like Starting From Zero Every Time

#webdev #react #typescript #opensource

3 min read

wanjiang

Dec 31 '25

Update: I curated 500+ "Verified" n8n Workflows so you don't have to debug JSON

#showdev #n8n #automation #opensource

2 min read

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