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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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Alain Airom (Ayrom)

Dec 7 '25

Update of “Fun project of the week, Mermaid flowcharts generator!” — V2 and more…

#mermaid #ollama #opensource #python

10 min read

Irfan Ali

Nov 7 '25

Myna: monospace font for symbol-first editing experience

#programming #design #ux #opensource

1 min read

Nov 1 '25

CI/CT Quality Automation Tool

#cicd #tooling #opensource #automation

1 min read

Nov 3 '25

useChat hook in Chef codebase.

#usechat #opensource #ai #sdk

2 min read

Nov 7 '25

How Enterprises Can Retain Local Control Through Digital Sovereignty | Ep 142 #cloudnativefm

#platformengineering #genai #opensource #digitalsovereignty

3 min read

NocoBase

Nov 3 '25

NocoBase 2.0: Meet Your AI Employees

#opensource #nocode #lowcode #ai

6 min read

Bogdan

Dec 6 '25

Writing a tiny PID 1 for containers in pure assembly (x86-64 + ARM64)

#opensource #linux #assembly #containers

7 min read

NonsoBarn

Nov 7 '25

Announcing React Native Versatile Modal: One Modal Component to Rule Them All

#reactnative #javascript #opensource #typescript

4 min read

Muhammed Rasin O M

Dec 6 '25

I built a FastAPI admin panel that doesn't suck (and here's why it's different)

#webdev #python #fastapi #opensource

3 min read

Meysam

Nov 3 '25

Self-hosting Listmonk: From ConvertKit to €12/month infrastructure

#selfhosted #kubernetes #devops #opensource

11 min read

Dec 7 '25

12 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Nov 15 '25

Federated avatars in authentik

#opensource #tutorial #security #devops

4 min read

Steven Bennett for Anarchy Ireland

Dec 6 '25

🌿 Universal Companion Protocol (UCP) v1 BETA — Public Seed Document

#ai #architecture #opensource

3 min read

DASWU

Nov 7 '25

Deep Dive into the JuiceFS Garbage Collection Mechanism

#opensource

9 min read

Nov 22 '25

I built a self-hosted Google Forms alternative and made it open source! 🎉

#showdev #opensource #programming #javascript

11 min read

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