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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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Soufyan

Dec 21

🎉 Announcing mkarchi v0.1.6 - Now Ready to Use! 🚀

#chatgpt #python #mkarchi #opensource

2 min read

tiramisu-framework

Dec 20

Tiramisu 3.0: From Response Generation to Decision Governance

#agents #architecture #opensource #ai

4 min read

saiarlen

Dec 21

Logmojo — High-Performance Log Management Made Simple

#opensource #devops #monitoring #go

2 min read

Benjamin Touchard

Dec 20

Why I refuse to ship Google Analytics in open-source projects

#opensource #selfhosted #privacy #devops

2 min read

Dec 19

RegExp vs String Manipulation in Go language

#go #regex #performance #opensource

4 min read

Dec 20

I Built SoftLA: A Software-Only Logic Analyzer for UART & I2C Debugging (No Hardware Required)

#embedded #opensource #firmware #debugging

2 min read

Henry Odinakachukwu

Dec 20

Fixing Broken Links in the Developer Resources

#documentation #github #resources #opensource

1 min read

Benjamin Touchard

Dec 20

Proving people actually read internal documents is still a mess

#opensource #selfhosted #devops #compliance

2 min read

TI for Kreuzberg.dev

Dec 21

Kreuzberg v4.0.0-rc14 released: optimization phase and stable v4 ahead

#opensource #product #python #rust

1 min read

Gunnar Grosch for AWS

Dec 20

DEV Track Spotlight: Building Agentic AI - Amazon Nova Act and Strands Agents in Practice (DEV327)

#aws #ai #agents #opensource

7 min read

zayoka

Dec 24

GenresFox Version 0.4.1 Update

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Soufyan

Dec 20

mkarchi v0.1.4 — Turning AI-generated project ideas into real code structures

#tooling #opensource #ai #python

1 min read

xyz abc

Dec 20

10 Insanely Useful Fake Data & Mockup Generators Every Developer Needs in 2025 (All Free, No Signup)

#productivity #programming #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Dec 19

Lessons from 500+ GitHub Migrations

#devops #github #automation #opensource

5 min read

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Dec 20

As a Student, I Built a Startup to Answer One Simple Question: Where Can I Watch This Anime?

#webdev #startup #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Rost

Dec 19

Snap vs Flatpak: Ultimate Guide for 2025

#linux #devops #opensource

9 min read

Anirudha Puthraya

Dec 20

I’m Proposing an Offline-First Computing Standard — Here’s Why

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Dec 20

What Exactly Is the “Bazel Ecosystem”?

#tooling #devops #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Dec 19

Inside Apache SeaTunnel CDC: How the System Really Works

#programming #bigdata #opensource #seatunnel

10 min read

Dec 19

Spectrum-Eager: A Minimal Jekyll Theme for Your Personal Site

#jekyll #webdev #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Dec 20

The Code is Open: How Free & Open Source Software Became the Backbone of Modern Business and the Internet

#opensource #startup #seo #webdev

5 min read

DASWU

Dec 19

AI Data Storage: Challenges, Capabilities, and Comparative Analysis

#ai #opensource

10 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Dec 19

Building a CDC Skyscraper: How SeaTunnel Leverages Debezium Under the Hood

#dataengineering #database #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Rodolfo Olivieri

Dec 19

Let’s talk about: Goose!

#research #goose #llm #opensource

15 min read

Henry Lin

Dec 19

第1章：NautilusTrader 简介

#rust #performance #python #opensource

2 min read

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