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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 15

Dev List Digest for Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Polaris and Arrow: January 6–14, 2026

#news #dataengineering #opensource

4 min read

m4cd4r4

Jan 20

I Built a Localhost Port Manager Because I Was Tired of Googling "Kill Port 3000"

#webdev #opensource #productivity #electron

3 min read

FPVtune

Feb 19

I built an auto PID tuning tool for Betaflight — here's how it works under the hood

#showdev #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Feb 19

Why Stockfish is So Good (and How You Could Write a Chess Engine)

#ai #algorithms #cpp #opensource

12 min read

Jobin

Jan 15

Why TODOs rot — and how I built a tool to make them expire

#opensource #devops #programming #devtools

2 min read

Elvis Mørales Fdz

Feb 19

How to give Claude Code persistent memory with a self-hosted mem0 MCP server

#ai #opensource #programming #selfhosted

12 min read

uuware

Feb 8

Lupine.js - The Lightweight Frontend & Efficient Backend Framework

#javascript #webdev #opensource #react

2 min read

Griffin

Jan 15

I Built the First AI-Native Build System

#opensource #programming #devops #productivity

4 min read

Jan 20

A New Era of Determinism

#ai #programming #opensource #rag

8 min read

Takuya Morimoto

Feb 19

Your Link-in-Bio Is Lying — Why Verified Links Are the Next Standard

#webdev #security #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Gaurav Chile | InfraForgeLabs

Jan 16

Why Debugging Is the Real Skill Behind DevOps

#playwright #devops #opensource #learning

2 min read

Yazeed Al Oyoun

Feb 5

I built a CLI for the process/port commands I could never remember

#showdev #opensource #cli #productivity

1 min read

Chad

Feb 18

I just wanted Claude Code on my phone. 10 days and 2,000 downloads later, here's the story.

#claudecode #opensource #productivity #webdev

7 min read

Ark code

Feb 18

GStreamer

#architecture #opensource #programming #tutorial

4 min read

Touseef Ibn Khaleel

Jan 15

From Lag Spike to Lightning Fast: The Engineering Behind Gaze Guard's Massive Performance Overhaul

#webdev #ai #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

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