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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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Mark Jeff

Aug 28

Are We Relying Too Much on SaaS Tools and Forgetting the Value of Custom Software?

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

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Yousef

Oct 1

Rhino Framework: The Real-Code Solution for MVP Development

#hacktoberfest #opensource #rails #ruby

6 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Aug 30

Memahami Logo Earl

#programming #opensource #ai #learning

1 min read

Aug 28

🌍 How to Contribute to Open Source (Even If You're Just Starting Out)

#opensource #ai #agentaichallenge #programming

3 min read

Aug 28

State management in Puck codebase.

#opensource #zustand

2 min read

Aug 28

trackEvent function in Motia codebase.

#opensource #amplitude

2 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Sep 20

🍳 From Convex's Kitchen to OpenRouter's Gateway: My Journey Integrating 200+ AI Models into Chef

#ai #opensource #webdev #programming

5 min read

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Aug 28

The Dev’s AI Vault, Part 1: How developers are actually using ChatGPT (9 proven patterns)

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

46 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 3

Hacktoberfest Beginner-Friendly Repositories: Find and Contribute to Open Source Projects

#opensource #github #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 29

AWS open source newsletter, #214

#opensource #aws

26 min read

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Aug 28

The two-part routine that helps me code, write, and actually finish stuff

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

28 min read

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Aug 28

I Upgraded to Vite 7: What Got 10x Better and Why It Might be the Future of Frontend Dev.

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

12 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Louis Girifalco

Oct 16

🌍 Quote.Vote — An Open-Source Public Square for Respectful Dialogue (Hacktoberfest 2025)

#help #devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

ByteKnight

Aug 28

🛡 CrowdSec: Open‑Source, Crowd‑Powered Defense

#opensource #security #multiplatform #cybersecurity

1 min read

fmerian

Sep 29

How Kilo Code launched on Product Hunt

#showdev #opensource #ai #startup

2 min read

Aug 27

A change in vision | Building Stocksimpy (Devlog 4)

#programming #python #opensource #learning

3 min read

Patryk Zdunowski

Aug 28

What do you think about the open source condition in 2025?

#discuss #opensource #programming

1 min read

Aug 28

Android Kiosk Mode Explained in Simple Steps

#android #security #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Sep 10

You ever defined a constant with value `1 << 2`?

#opensource #bitshift #ripple #constants

2 min read

Leanid Herasimau

Oct 3

Open-source project FlareProx presented — a Cloudflare proxy for web scraping and pentesting

#serverless #opensource #cybersecurity #tooling

2 min read

kaolay

Aug 27

CPF3: Why Your Security Stack is Missing the Human Brain (and How to Fix It)

#cybersecurity #psychology #opensource

4 min read

Sep 29

Hacktoberfest 2025: New Devs, Let's Build Something Awesome with 'Developer's Toolkit'! ✨

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mohammad Shahzeb Alam

Aug 27

Simple Guide to Setting Up Git and GitHub

#git #github #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Arma Sahar

Sep 30

Git Exposed!

#coding #opensource #webdev #beginners

5 min read

nyaomaru

Sep 30

Introducing `divider`: A Handy Utility to Split Strings and Arrays ✂️

#typescript #javascript #opensource #util

4 min read

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