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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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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Mar 6 '25

How We Took GitOps a Step Further

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #git

4 min read

Jan 11 '25

Certificate Generation using OpenSSL locally

#security #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Feb 14 '25

Advanced Layouts with Puck 0.18: Harnessing Grid and Flex Containers

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

18 min read

Jônatas Davi Paganini for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 19 '25

How to Set Up a Dashboard for Global Energy Data Analytics (Real-World Use Case)

#opensource #database #tutorial #postgres

9 min read

Agastya Malunjkar for GitCorteX

Feb 14 '25

🚀 Supercharge Your GitHub Workflow with GitCorteX: AI-Powered Automation

#github #opensource #ai #gitcortex

1 min read

Micha Hernandez van Leuffen for Fiberplane

Feb 13 '25

Fiberplane: Your Hono-native API Playground, powered by OpenAPI

#hono #cloudflare #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Jan 31 '25

18 Best UI Component Libraries for React

#react #javascript #frontend #opensource

11 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 14 '25

How I Built Open Source Fastest URL Shortener Ever With Rust

#opensource #programming #tutorial #rust

2 min read

Philipp

Jan 24 '25

🐐 DevCv: The G.O.A.T. of CV Builders for Developers

#career #opensource #frontend #tooling

3 min read

Thevie Mortiniera

Feb 13 '25

Google chrome inactive tabs extension

#javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 13 '25

Open Source Data Engineering Landscape 2025

#dataengineering #opensource #apacheddolphinscheduler #database

14 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Feb 13 '25

Metabase 53: Save questions to dashboards, dynamic iframe cards, preemptive caching, and more!

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

7 min read

dage212

Jan 10 '25

SourceCodeDocs website has been established

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Feb 13 '25

DeepSeek Extension for GitHub Copilot in VS Code 🚀

#vscode #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Feb 13 '25

How to remove a file in Node.js?

#javascript #opensource #react #typescript

3 min read

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