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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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Jan 28

WordPress.org plugin submission is a two-stage game (and nobody tells you this)

#wordpress #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Favoured Anuanatata

Dec 24 '25

Making Testnet vs Devnet Usage Clearer

#web3 #documentation #learning #opensource

1 min read

steplead

Dec 25 '25

Building an AI-Powered Engine for Traditional Color Preservation

#webdev #ai #opensource #design

1 min read

Leo

Dec 24 '25

From Zero to Deployed: Your Personal Heroku Alternative (Without the Bill)

#tooling #webdev #opensource #devops

4 min read

Dec 24 '25

The Real Problem with Complex Configuration Isn’t Complexity

#webdev #devops #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jan 7

Building a Multi-Provider Social Posting API with Automatic Fallback (Open Source)

#showdev #opensource #python #api

2 min read

Yuval

Jan 28

The Architecture of Persistent Memory for Claude Code

#ai #claude #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Dec 28 '25

Why I Built My Own Web Application Monitoring System

#opensource #testing #webdev #developer

1 min read

Nikolas Dimitroulakis

Jan 28

Open-sourcing Voiden: An API Tool Built for Developers, Not SaaS

#opensource #api #devtool #webdev

2 min read

Vivek Kalyanarangan

Jan 26

I got 29x speedup rewriting Python's validators library in Rust

#rust #python #performance #opensource

2 min read

Feb 10

Distro Hopping to Nowhere: How I Landed on Vanilla Arch for COSMIC

#linux #opensource #arch #cosmic

5 min read

Jan 28

How I Made Netflix Give Me 4K (Because Apparently My Browser Wasn't Good Enough)

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

7 min read

Max

Jan 7

I Built a Codebase That Evolves Itself Through Democracy

#opensource #javascript #nextjs #webdev

2 min read

zayoka

Dec 23 '25

Good morning everyone, now I have WASM.

#webdev #rust #opensource #webassembly

1 min read

Jan 28

A Time Tracking App Wanted $28,800, So I Replaced It With a Homelab

#opensource #productivity #saas #tooling

6 min read

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