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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.

submission guidelines

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 23 '25

🌱 I Built an Open‑Source Adaptive Learning Framework (ALF) — Modular, Bilingual, and JSON‑Driven

#learning #opensource #python #ai

2 min read

hdcode dev

Dec 23 '25

A React Snowfall Effect with Physics

#react #opensource #webdev #typescript

1 min read

Deep Press Analysis

Dec 23 '25

From Steam Machines to Home Robots: Where Consumer Tech Is Actually Heading

#opensource #iot #softwareengineering

2 min read

Qodex

Nov 20 '25

Turn your code into OpenAPI 3.0 docs in seconds

#api #opensource #tooling #automation

2 min read

Rizmy Abdulla 🎖️

Dec 24 '25

tinypdf - A tiny PDF library in Dart (<600 LOC, zero deps, real PDFs!)

#flutter #dart #opensource #programming

2 min read

Alexandr Bandurchin for Uptrace

Nov 20 '25

OpenTelemetry Filelog Receiver

#monitoring #opensource #kubernetes #devops

9 min read

PikaPods

Nov 24 '25

🧐 Cyber Monday Reality Check for Devs

#opensource #smartspending #webdev

1 min read

Dec 24 '25

Top 10 Open-Source Robotic Arm Projects for Beginners

#robotic #arm #opensource

3 min read

Anand Vashishtha

Dec 23 '25

Building KaggleIngest: How I Bridged Kaggle Data with AI Coding Assistants

#python #kaggle #react #opensource

2 min read

Steven Hur

Nov 18 '25

Debugging Windows Race Conditions in Dagster

#devjournal #dataengineering #python #opensource

3 min read

Nov 20 '25

VIBE CLI & VIBE CODE

#showdev #opensource #tooling #ai

5 min read

GetPochi

Dec 23 '25

How does a code editor decide the right moment to show an LLM-generated code suggestion

#programming #ai #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Nov 23 '25

OSD600: Lab 9

#learning #github #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

Daniele

Dec 23 '25

Strings are hard. Unicode is harder.

#gleam #opensource #programming #elixir

7 min read

Alexandr Bandurchin for Uptrace

Nov 20 '25

OpenTelemetry Gin Monitoring [otelgin]

#monitoring #backend #opensource #go

3 min read

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