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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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Dec 29 '25

Kubernetes In-Place Pod Resize

#kubernetes #opensource #sre

3 min read

Alan Tsai

Dec 15 '25

An AI Almost Deleted My Code

#ai #opensource #devtools #programming

4 min read

Dec 16 '25

Testing in Umami codebase - Part 1.1

#umami #opensource #testing #architecture

4 min read

Minimus

Dec 15 '25

Sha1-Hulud 2.0 - The Second Coming: A Technical Breakdown

#security #opensource #devops #javascript

5 min read

Jan 14

Stop Zipping Folders: How I Built a Zero-Trust Tunnel to Share Files Instantly (in Go)

#go #opensource #cli #security

3 min read

Yuhao Xu

Jan 20

I Built an Open-Source Cowork in 24 Hours with ZERO Rust Experience — and the Agent Builts Itself

#claude #opensource #ai #rust

2 min read

Yue @ Datastrato (Admin) for Apache Gravitino

Jan 20

Setting up Apache Gravitino from Scratch

#opensource #metadata #agenticai #gravitino101

7 min read

Dec 20 '25

High-performance cross-platform Linux server manager Docker/SSH/SFTP) built with Tauri (Rust) and React.

#tooling #devops #opensource #linux

2 min read

Triple Gyrus Core

Dec 15 '25

Toward Version 2 of Triple Gyrus Core with Community Feedback

#a11y #opensource

4 min read

gamh5games

Dec 15 '25

Designing Difficulty Curves That Work in Browser Platformer Games

#tutorial #devops #python #opensource

2 min read

Linuxano

Dec 16 '25

Best WiFi Adapters That Actually Work on Linux (Tested & Explained)

#linux #opensource #wifi

2 min read

Edvin

Dec 15 '25

I built the Ultimate Open Source YouTube Downloader (No Ads, Next.js 16) 🎥

#nextjs #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dec 19 '25

🚀 Elevating Your Python Workflow: A Deep Dive into PackageMaker (IPM) v3.2.5

#python #opensource #productivity #devops

2 min read

Alizetihr – Tech Talent Scouting

Dec 16 '25

Why job boards are failing UX/UI designers (and what works better today)

#uxdesign #career #opensource #github

1 min read

Peter Pagano@SpeckOs

Dec 15 '25

Speck.js: AI Agents with Persistent Memory in One Line of Code

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

2 min read

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