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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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Arun Krish

Aug 13

Start Open Source Contributions Now!

#opensource #beginners #github #community

2 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

SantiFromSicily

Jul 9

miei primi due repository open-source: DockerDevBase e DockerDevKit

#opensource #php #docker #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Wallace Espindola

Jul 9

Cassandra vs PostgreSQL: A Developer’s Guide to Choose the Right Database

#database #architecture #performance #opensource

3 min read

Codegenie

Jul 9

I Built an Open Source Multi-Step Form Wizard for Livewire 3 — Here's Why (and How You Can Use It)

#laravel #livewire #opensource #tailwindcss

2 min read

Jul 9

Here's how OpenAI Token count is computed in Tiktokenizer - Part 3

#opensource #openai #nextjs #tiktoken

2 min read

Michael Cobol Agan

Jul 9

VONET – an AI PC agent that understands your commands and controls your PC directly.

#ai #opensource #python #autonomous

2 min read

Marie Landry (Marie Landry’s Spy Shop)

Jul 14

Introducing Search For Organics: A Certified-Organic Search Engine & Knowledge Hub

#opensource #organicsearch #search #organic

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Jul 9

The Future Is Synthetic: How AI is Creating Art, Music, Code, and Reality

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm

6 min read

Johnny Santamaria

Aug 12

Fixing CLI Error Handling: A Deep Dive into Keyshade's WebSocket Communication Bug

#opensource #devbugsmash #security #programming

20 min read

Ank

Jul 9

What are opensource Ecommerce Platforms?

#webdev #beginners #opensource #learning

2 min read

Giovanni Panasiti

Jul 9

Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines Through Active Storage Dashboard

#ruby #rails #opensource

11 min read

Roman Muslikhov

Jul 23

Github

#github #automation #devops #opensource

1 min read

Skell

Aug 1

Cially - Discord Server Analytics, But Actually Good 🪼

#discord #webdev #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Aug 12

The Most Powerful Free AI Models in 2025 — What Developers Can Build with Them (and How to Get Started)

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #coding

6 min read

NocoBase

Jul 9

NocoBase Commercial License Activation Guide

#opensource #lowcode #nocode

5 min read

Aug 11

Building Nexa Research Agent: An AI-Powered Deep Research Platform from Scratch

#computerscience #nlp #programming #opensource

5 min read

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