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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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Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Feb 20 '25

Top 5 Drag-and-Drop Libraries for React in 2025

#opensource #frontend #react #webdev

23 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 13 '25

⚙️Server-side rendering without Next.js, Remix, Nuxt.js, etc. 🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Justin Karneges for Fastly

Feb 26 '25

Announcing the Pub/Sub Compute app

#pubsub #serverless #rust #opensource

4 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa

Feb 21 '25

Why I Built Whatsback Web—And Why It’s Different From Other Tools

#webdev #automation #whatsapp #opensource

3 min read

PandaDEV

Feb 20 '25

Generate Beautiful Changelogs for Github!

#github #programming #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Feb 20 '25

My First Year in Love with TanStack

#webdev #opensource #career

3 min read

Feb 21 '25

A Chrome Killer for Productivity

#linux #webdev #opensource

2 min read

yuj

Jan 17 '25

[open source] A smart text editor running local models completely in browser

#webdev #ai #chatgpt #opensource

1 min read

Team TigerData for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 24 '25

Pgai Vectorizer Meets Python: Integrating SQLAlchemy and Alembic

#ai #python #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Jan 17 '25

I've created an open-source interactive game for learning regular expressions a fun way

#regex #webdev #learning #opensource

2 min read

NocoBase

Feb 20 '25

How to Implement Registered User Review in NocoBase

#opensource #tutorial #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

Arjun Vijay Prakash

Feb 16 '25

typing tests were boring, so i built TypeTheLyrics.

#showdev #webdev #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Feb 20 '25

You are familiar with npm/pnpm but have you heard of tnpm or cnpm?

#javascript #opensource #npm

3 min read

NocoBase

Feb 20 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Support Global or Batch Records Triggering Custom Action Event

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

DASWU

Jan 17 '25

Automated Cache Management: JuiceFS Enterprise Edition Introduces Cache Group Operator

#opensource

4 min read

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