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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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Jun 22 '25

EXSQL: An open-source SQL language extension for customizable querying

#showdev #programming #sql #opensource

1 min read

Cryptostheworldof

Jun 21 '25

Lightweight Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Software with a Custom “Flash” Feature

#bitcoin #crypto #mining #opensource

1 min read

Zainab Imran for PatentScanAI

Jun 23 '25

How to Find Prior Art for Inter Partes Review (IPR)

#ai #productivity #legaltech #opensource

5 min read

Jun 21 '25

How to Estimate a Software Project When You're Still Figuring It Out

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Pierre “Bob” Stephan

Jun 21 '25

Clean Up Your WordPress Debug Logs: Introducing the "Cron Error Silence" Plugin

#wordpress #plugin #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Jul 24 '25

What Vibe Coding Actually Looks Like for a Senior Engineer

#ai #opensource #node #webdev

4 min read

Jul 25 '25

From 'Coming Soon... Maybe' to Actually Shipping: A 2-Year Dev Journey

#webdev #opensource #react #buildinpublic

3 min read

Python Trending Weekly

Jun 21 '25

Python Trending Weekly #107: GIL-Free Python Gets Official Approval

#python #ai #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

marcosomma

Jul 25 '25

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#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

1 min read

Tasib

Jun 21 '25

Build a Smart Audio Book with Python (Beginner Friendly Project) 🎧📚

#python #audiobook #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jun 21 '25

Introducing MonomaOS — A Python-Based Command-Line OS Prototype

#python #opensource #cli #os

1 min read

Jul 25 '25

The Engineering Principles Behind Sparrow’s Speed

#ai #opensource #api #testing

2 min read

Mohamed Radwan for AWS Community Builders

Jun 21 '25

Enriching Keycloak with LinkedIn VanityName, Headline & Profile Picture via Custom SPI

#keycloak #opensource

3 min read

Beingana Jim Junior

Jun 20 '25

A Guide to contributing to the Conveyor CI Driver Runtime

#opensource #programming #devops #tutorial

7 min read

Roma Armsrtrong

Jul 24 '25

AI-Powered Website Generator with ChatGPT and Next.js 15: Building SEO-Optimized Pages from Scratch (v0 Blueprint)

#ai #nextjs #opensource #saas

34 min read

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