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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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Aug 28

Why “All-in-One” Productivity Tools Fail (and What Actually Works)

#discuss #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Aug 27

A change in vision | Building Stocksimpy (Devlog 4)

#programming #python #opensource #learning

3 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Aug 28

The Client Portal Revolution: How We Eliminated 67% of "Quick Question" Emails

#productivity #opensource #webdev #devops

5 min read

Patryk Zdunowski

Aug 28

What do you think about the open source condition in 2025?

#discuss #opensource #programming

1 min read

Aug 28

Android Kiosk Mode Explained in Simple Steps

#android #security #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Sep 10

You ever defined a constant with value `1 << 2`?

#opensource #bitshift #ripple #constants

2 min read

kaolay

Aug 27

CPF3: Why Your Security Stack is Missing the Human Brain (and How to Fix It)

#cybersecurity #psychology #opensource

4 min read

Mohammad Shahzeb Alam

Aug 27

Simple Guide to Setting Up Git and GitHub

#git #github #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dark Tech Insights

Aug 27

The Silent Threat of Overusing Libraries in Programming

#programming #softwaredevelopment #codequality #opensource

3 min read

Aug 27

How I’m Using Bitcoin Red Envelopes to Onboard New Users

#bitcoin #opensource #sideprojects #webdev

1 min read

Aug 27

5-Day Stateful Agent (Open Source) 🚀

#agentaichallenge #langgraph #langchain #opensource

1 min read

Suraj

Aug 27

Why NGINX Still Powers the Modern Web in 2025: Part 1

#nginx #devops #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Aug 29

Bahasa Pemrograman yang Mudah Dipahami Adalah Earl

#programming #ai #opensource #learning

2 min read

Judy

Aug 27

Calculate the first N terms of the Fibonacci sequence--Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #esproc

3 min read

Aug 27

generateTraceId function in Motia codebase.

#backend #opensource #observability

2 min read

Aug 27

`handlebars` package in Puck codebase.

#handlebars #opensource

2 min read

Aug 26

How to Set Up an AWS Application Load Balancer for Your EC2 Instances

#loadbalancer #aws #ec2 #opensource

4 min read

Telemetry Harbor

Aug 27

We Built It, Then We Freed It: Telemetry Harbor Goes Open Source

#programming #opensource #telemetry #saas

5 min read

Patryk Zdunowski

Aug 27

⭐ Every Star Matters ⭐ - Celebrating Our 25th!

#discuss #programming #opensource

1 min read

Muhibbudin Suretno

Aug 29

This is How I Automate the Tech Discovery Using LLMs

#ai #automation #nextjs #opensource

4 min read

Magdalena Sobantka for flotiq

Sep 9

Headless CMS Guide 2025, Part 2: Top platforms and how to choose the right one

#webdev #flotiq #headlesscms #opensource

5 min read

Shinsuke KAGAWA

Sep 8

From 49 to 95: How Prompt Engineering Boosted Gemini MCP Image Generation

#ai #promptengineering #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Aug 26

logger.ts in Motia.dev codebase.

#logger #opensource #npm

3 min read

Aug 26

`inquirer` package in Puck codebase.

#opensource #npm #cli

2 min read

Aug 26

Discover Flyy.js: The Lightweight Hero for Effortless Data Management in JavaScript

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

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