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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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Aluizio Tomazelli Junior

Feb 3

wifi_manager: a Wi-Fi state manager for ESP-IDF

#esp32 #cpp #iot #opensource

3 min read

commence-software

Feb 3

A Path Not Taken

#programming #opensource #architecture #api

3 min read

Feb 2

SnapPoint: A Hard Reset for Your Dev Machine

#programming #opensource #go #productivity

5 min read

ZiLing

Dec 31 '25

I Thought It Was Refactoring My Code. It Actually Wiped It Out.

#ai #python #security #opensource

3 min read

Michael Amachree

Dec 31 '25

Day 10: Visualize Your 2024 Code Journey (GitHub Tracker)

#github #svelte #yearincode #opensource

1 min read

sonka

Dec 31 '25

How I Built a JSON Repair Library for LLM Streaming (and Made it 1.7x Faster)

#javascript #opensource #ai #webdev

2 min read

idk

Dec 31 '25

Writing a 0-dependency Telegram SDK with auto-generated types

#typescript #node #telegram #opensource

1 min read

Mate Technologies

Dec 31 '25

🚀 FileMate Pro: A Python GUI File Manager with Tkinter

#python #tkinter #opensource #desktopapp

4 min read

Bùi Ngọc Lâm

Dec 31 '25

I Built My First macOS App: TSnap – Instant OCR & Text Translation Anywhere

#buildinpublic #opensource #productivity #indiedev

2 min read

Feb 4

Introducing NornWeave: Giving AI Agents Their Own Email Inbox

#opensource #ai #python #agents

4 min read

Michael Amachree

Dec 31 '25

Day 7: Holiday Word of the Day (English Dictionary App)

#svelte #sveltekit #learning #opensource

1 min read

Feb 4

Build Your Own ChatGPT App (Run It Locally)

#chatgpt #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Aviral Srivastava

Dec 31 '25

Linux from Scratch Basics

#learning #tutorial #opensource #linux

7 min read

Wasil

Feb 4

How to Export Chrome Bookmarks as JSON — and Why I Built a One-Click Extension for It

#javascript #productivity #opensource #extensions

2 min read

Michael Amachree

Dec 31 '25

Day 9: Smart Holiday Shopping & Travel (Currency Converter)

#svelte #sveltekit #travel #opensource

1 min read

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