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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 Choma

Jul 11

Bring Back Grepper

#discuss #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Yatharth Sanghavi

Aug 14

🎨 Building a Stunning AI Image Generator with Flutter: From Idea to App Store

#flutter #ai #mobiledev #opensource

4 min read

Mr Chike

Aug 14

🤝 Learn Front-End by Doing: Contribute to Cal.com's Open Source...🚀

#webdev #frontend #programming #opensource

6 min read

w4t3r

Aug 14

Spring Boot Python Executor: Integrating Java and Python

#java #springboot #python #opensource

3 min read

Noorsimar Singh

Jul 11

Scraping eBay's 1.2 Billion Listings: A Scrapy Tale

#webscraping #python #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Aug 14

Day 28: GraphQL in System Design – A Beginner-Friendly Guide

#programming #opensource #learning #python

4 min read

Jul 11

Beginner Friendly React JS Project: Build with Vite App

#react #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Djamware Tutorial

Jul 11

Top 10 Open Source AI Tools Every Developer Should Know (2025 Edition)

#ai #opensource #tools #dev

1 min read

Sameer Ali

Jul 11

Effortless Firestore Queries in React with React Query

#react #firebase #opensource #reactquery

2 min read

DASWU

Jul 11

JuiceFS Community 1.3: Python SDK, Faster Backup, SQL & Windows Optimizations

#opensource

8 min read

Aug 16

How to Make Your Localhost Server Available Online

#tunneling #devops #opensource #javascript

7 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 11

Think Your AI Understands You? It Already Started Responding

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Jul 15

🚀 Meet OptiFolio: The Modern Dev Portfolio Template Built for YOU!

#webdev #opensource #11ty #portfolio

3 min read

OpenCSG

Aug 14

Building the “Hybrid Huggingface+”: How OpenCSG Is Redefining the LLMOps & Agent Ecosystem

#ai #llmops #opensource #agenticops

4 min read

Arun Krish

Aug 13

Start Open Source Contributions Now!

#opensource #beginners #github #community

2 min read

TiLoKit

Aug 13

Introducing TiLoKit 🚀 – a universal Golang CLI to scaffold projects across frameworks

#cli #opensource #softwaredevelopment #showcase

1 min read

Aug 13

The brink of new AI standard

#news #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Aug 13

This Open Source Python Tool Replaces Your $2,000/Month Portfolio Tracker

#opensource #python #programming #ai

1 min read

Jul 10

GSoC 2025 – Week 5: Hardware Integration on Tauri Begins!🔌

#opensource #circuitverse #gsoc2025

2 min read

Alexander Njoku

Jul 10

https://medium.com/@alex2020global/filesystem-navigation-in-linux-aabaa87e8029

#discuss #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Giovanni Crisalfi

Aug 13

Kaomel: a snappy kaomoji picker for Emacs

#emacs #opensource #programming #tooling

9 min read

Aug 13

How to Contribute to Open Source as a Beginner

#opensource #beginners #github

3 min read

NocoBase

Jul 10

Announcing NocoBase v1.8.0

#news #lowcode #nocode #opensource

4 min read

Aug 10

Reusable Components Across Multiple Sites: From Design System to Deployment 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

NocoBase

Jul 14

BIEL Crystal’s Digital Factory: Powering 1.85 Billion Units a Year

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

5 min read

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