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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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Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Mar 12

Rebuilding domenicotenace.dev: How Pure Astro and CSS Reminded Me That Simple Is Better 🌟

#astro #css #opensource #webdev

6 min read

אחיה כהן

Mar 13

Building an Open-Source WhatsApp Customer Support Stack (n8n + Chatwoot + WAHA)

#opensource #tutorial #automation #docker

6 min read

Feb 7

I Was Tired of Copy-Pasting Translations in Figma - So I Built My Own Tool

#opensource

3 min read

Mar 13

GitHub for Civilizational Expansion: From an Antarctic Train to the Ontology of Autonomous Infrastructure

#automation #github #opensource #science

6 min read

Mar 13

15 Open Source Tools Every Developer Should Try in 2026

#opensource #programming #webdev #docker

17 min read

devjiro

Mar 11

I Built a Retro FPS That Turns Your Git Repo Into a Shooting Game

#javascript #threejs #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Javier Ramírez

Mar 13

Turning Markdown Files into a Queryable Knowledge Graph

#markdown #vscode #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Mar 14

Hello, LibreFang! — The Open-Source Agent Operating System

#rust #ai #opensource #agents

1 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Feb 7

Beyond OOP: Rethinking What a Programming Language Should Guarantee

#showdev #programming #opensource #performance

2 min read

Mirko Dimartino

Mar 13

Your Java Regex Just Silently Broke in Production. Here's How to Make That Impossible.

#java #programming #opensource #regex

4 min read

Mar 11

I Built a DevOps Simulator to Practice Kubernetes Debugging

#devops #kubernetes #learning #opensource

2 min read

devitway

Mar 13

Why I replaced Nexus with a 32MB binary

#rust #docker #devops #opensource

1 min read

Feb 7

Anatomy of a 5-Layer Defence Pipeline for AI Agent Memory

#ai #security #typescript #opensource

5 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Feb 7

Secure-by-Design Programming: Why Languages Must Evolve Beyond Middleware

#programming #opensource #performance #coding

2 min read

Rob Levin

Mar 13

I Built 55+ CodePens for Every AgnosticUI Component. Here's What I Learned.

#webcomponents #react #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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