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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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Feb 22

I replaced the `man` command with a Python TUI — and it's actually useful

#linux #python #cli #opensource

3 min read

Feb 22

My GSoC '25 Experience

#programming #opensource #coding #learning

9 min read

Feb 23

How We Fixed AI Summarization Timeouts for Self-Hosted Ollama

#go #ollama #selfhosted #opensource

2 min read

Sushanth Purushothama

Mar 28

How I Found a Hidden Bug in Wagtail-Localize

#wagtail #opensource #python #i18n

2 min read

Sonic001-h

Feb 22

I built a lightweight CLI log analyzer in Python while learning — here’s what I learned

#python #opensource #cli #beginners

1 min read

Mar 28

Paperless-ngx Has a Free API: Self-Hosted Document Management with OCR and Full-Text Search

#selfhosted #opensource #tutorial #productivity

2 min read

GoodRelax

Feb 22

Hide Any File in Two Images — Browser-Only, No Server

#javascript #security #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Adarsh

Feb 22

How I Engineered a Custom Chromium Adblocker from Scratch (Manifest V3)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #chromeextension

2 min read

Vijay Govindaraja

Mar 28

I Built a Free WCAG Accessibility Audit CLI for Government Teams

#showdev #a11y #cli #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28

Cal.com Has a Free API: Open-Source Scheduling That Replaces Calendly

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #productivity

2 min read

Mar 28

Windmill Has a Free API: Open-Source Alternative to Retool and Zapier for Developer Workflows

#automation #opensource #webdev #tutorial

2 min read

Mar 28

Zitadel Has a Free API: Self-Hosted Identity and Auth That Replaces Auth0

#security #webdev #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Nguezet Jordan Junior

Feb 23

Dokploy - Deploy a Postgres DB + Express API + Next.js app from GitHub

#automation #devops #docker #opensource

7 min read

Mar 28

Infisical Has a Free API: Open-Source Secret Management That Replaces HashiCorp Vault

#security #devops #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Feb 22

The database that AI uses

#ai #database #programming #opensource

2 min read

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