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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.

submission guidelines

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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Feb 10 '25

SSH Authentication with OpenPGP

#linux #ubuntu #opensource #ssh

2 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Feb 10 '25

Publish-subscribe messaging with open web services

#pubsub #opensource #node #javascript

3 min read

thelastbackspace

Mar 16 '25

TracePerf: A TypeScript-Powered Logging and Performance Tracking Library for Modern JavaScript Applications

#opensource #node #javascript #typescript

4 min read

Kanahiro Iguchi for MIERUNE

Mar 16 '25

Convert GeoJSON to PMTiles with AWS Serverless Pattern

#aws #serverless #opensource #lambda

4 min read

Mar 16 '25

How to build logic in programming as a beginner.

#programming #beginners #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

LunaStev

Mar 16 '25

Wave is now featured on LibHunt! Check out the comparisons with Leo, KCL, and Erg!

#programming #libhunt #wave #opensource

2 min read

Mar 14 '25

Who is Nishant Rana? An Introductory Blog

#webdev #beginners #opensource #learning

2 min read

Feb 9 '25

Pulumi W̶a̶s̶m̶/̶R̶u̶s̶t̶ Gestalt devlog #7

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

1 min read

Giovanna

Feb 9 '25

OS tool to debug LLM reasoning patterns with entropy analysis

#opensource #deepseek #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Mar 15 '25

Cron Jobs in Linux: Evolution from AT to Cron to Anacron

#linux #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Feb 9 '25

National Hero Award to Open-Source Software Creators: Avro Team Honored

#opensource #dailydev #programming

2 min read

Mar 15 '25

Data Structure Operations Time Complexity Guide

#programming #tutorial #interview #opensource

2 min read

Codanyks

Mar 15 '25

Creating Company-Standard Errors in Node.js Microservices (Part 2)

#wthek #node #opensource #codanyks

3 min read

Mar 15 '25

30 Days of Python: From Zero to Python Pro

#python #opensource #beginners #programming

2 min read

Gianluca

Mar 4 '25

Click-to-Cluster: GitOps EKS Provisioning

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

7 min read

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