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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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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 19 '25

Evolving Our Infrastructure: Why We Moved from Heroku Postgres to Neon

#forem #opensource #postgres #database

5 min read

Jul 4 '25

Top 7 Open-Source Projects to Contribute to in 2025

#opensource #react #python #webdev

3 min read

May 31 '25

Do You Ever Feel Like Your Mind Is Running on Someone Else’s Code?

#productivity #mentalhealth #opensource #motivation

1 min read

Jul 4 '25

Port Forwarding Made Simple: How to Use Tunnelmole for Secure, Developer-Friendly Port Forwarding

#portforwarding #opensource #javascript #typescript

5 min read

May 31 '25

You Wanna Be a Design Engineer? Here's What You're Really Signing Up For!

#learning #career #opensource #mechanical

3 min read

Jean Klebert de A Modesto

Jul 4 '25

OpenWebStart, Java Web Start (JWS): Modern Browser Interactions and “Compatibility” Challenges

#java #opensource #browser #development

4 min read

Jul 4 '25

From Zero to Chat: My Journey Building a MERN App (and Yours Can Be Too!)

#javascript #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jul 4 '25

Extract GitHub Folders in 1 Command (No Clone)

#go #opensource #cli #github

4 min read

marcosomma

Jul 4 '25

🧠 OrKa Cognitive Iteration Benchmark. Full Technical Report

#ai #agentaichallenge #python #opensource

9 min read

Jul 3 '25

RingtoneSmartKit – Kotlin Library for Customizing Android Ringtones Easily

#android #kotlin #opensource #ringtone

1 min read

Jul 4 '25

How to Use Tunnelmole as a Reverse Proxy: The Open Source Approach

#reverseproxy #opensource #javascript #typescript

5 min read

Muzaffar Hossain

Jul 4 '25

I Built CommitPress Because I Was Tired of Complex Blog Systems

#portfolio #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Zoe

Jul 7 '25

Building WCAG-Compliant Flutter Components: Automating Contrast Calculations

#flutter #a11y #wcag #opensource

4 min read

Jul 2 '25

The Best Free ngrok Alternative: Meet Tunnelmole (Open Source & Easy to Use)

#ngrok #opensource #tunneling #webhooks

5 min read

Sharon

Jun 4 '25

What Is a WAF—and Why Your Web App Needs One

#websecurity #waf #safeline #opensource

3 min read

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