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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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May 18 '25

New Project: Markdown TOC Generator 📑

#markdown #typescript #opensource #npm

2 min read

Jay Lee

May 18 '25

Did you know? # is the magic word to reduce your bundle size.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #programming

1 min read

May 29 '25

How a Simple Arch Linux Installation Made Me Accidentally Study Operating Systems

#archlinux #linux #opensource #programming

3 min read

Joel Milligan for NanoAPI

May 29 '25

Symbol Extraction - Killing Modular Monoliths

#opensource #symbolextraction

4 min read

Pavel

May 29 '25

I built a JSON AST Interpreter — write & run programs in pure JSON!

#javascript #opensource #programming #node

1 min read

Yuhesh Pandian P J

May 29 '25

🎨 ICONIC — A Curated Gallery of Open Source Skill Icons You Can Contribute To

#icons #opensource #svg #beginners

1 min read

Apr 25 '25

Expose your local code to ChatGPT (securely, no API keys) – GPT Code Viewer (Node.js + cloudflared)

#webdev #opensource #chatgpt #node

1 min read

Heapstack

May 29 '25

Translating Free Software - why bother

#opensource #l18n #l10n #localization

3 min read

Aug 5 '25

Can You Make This Python Racing Game Better?😏🧠 Let's Code Together!

#gamedev #opensource #python #beginners

1 min read

Leonardo Gonçalves

Apr 29 '25

My first library for C language

#opensource #github #c #tooling

1 min read

Arindam Majumder

Apr 28 '25

I Built an MCP Server for DevTo (100% Open Source)🎉

#mcp #devto #python #opensource

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 25 '25

Special Permissions in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Apr 29 '25

🎬 The Sysadmin Show – Episode 9: “The Curious Case of the Special Bits”

#beginners #linux #opensource #cloudwhistler

3 min read

Shreyash Srivastava

Apr 25 '25

My Experience Participating in KWoC

#opensource #kwoc #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Bahador Raghibizadeh

May 29 '25

express-access: Elegant Role-Based Access Control for Express.js

#node #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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