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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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Younes

Jun 24 '25

Discover Trending and Essential npm Packages with NPM Leaderboard

#npm #opensource #productivity #devtools

1 min read

righ

Jul 28 '25

GridSheet v2 – A Modern, Extensible Spreadsheet Engine for the Web

#webdev #react #vue #opensource

2 min read

Jul 28 '25

RabbitMQ: The Superhero My API Didn’t Know It Needed

#node #webdev #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Jul 28 '25

🟩 commit-checker v0.6.1 – Track GitHub streaks, TIL logs, and unlock CLI achievements

#opensource #cli #programming #productivity

2 min read

NocoBase

Jun 24 '25

Airtable Data Limit Reached: 3 Common Solutions

#opensource #data #database #lowcode

8 min read

GY

Jun 24 '25

Intent: Event-Sourcing Starts in 5 Minutes (batteries-included)

#showdev #webdev #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Jun 24 '25

API2CSV - Toutes les fonctionnalités

#webdev #json #csv #opensource

1 min read

PARTHIB KUMAR DEB

Jul 28 '25

The Bigbang 💥

#linux #ubuntu #bash #opensource

9 min read

Jun 28 '25

⚡️ Building a Multi-Tenant Spring Boot Starter from Scratch — with Subdomain Routing, Dynamic Datasources & Ego Logs

#springboot #java #opensource #multitenant

2 min read

Guilherme Sousa

Jul 17 '25

Introducing ccmd: Slash Command Manager for Claude Code

#ai #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mistants

Jun 25 '25

I couldn't find a simple sound player for my project, so I built and open-sourced one.

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Jul 27 '25

YINI Parser Hits Beta - Human-Friendly, Modern Config Format with Minimal Syntax Noise

#showdev #node #opensource #tooling

2 min read

zak

Jun 23 '25

🧰 I launched my minimalist config journal: here’s what’s inside.

#webdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Sharon

Jun 24 '25

Meet the Open-Source WAF Trusted by Top Engineers to Block Real-World Attacks

#opensource #safeline #waf #cybersecurity

3 min read

Nakadra

Jun 23 '25

Sphere v0.2.0: Introducing a Public Hub for Shareable, Sandboxed Commands

#showdev #rust #opensource #docker

3 min read

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