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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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Oct 23

KitikiPlot: Your New Go-To for Time-Series Data Visualization

#python #opensource #datascience

1 min read

Oct 27

Understanding a new feature from Repomix

#programming #opensource #cli #osd600lab6

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Matheus Cruvinel

Oct 25

Hacktoberfest 2025: A Journey Through Multiple Perspectives

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Oct 22

From 3 Hours of Debugging to 8 Lines of Code: How I Built and Upgraded OpenLoom for Java File I/O

#java #programming #opensource #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Oct 22

How to Ensure Cross-Browser Compatibility With Open Source Testing Tools?

#opensource #testingtools #softwaretesting

3 min read

Oct 23

⚡️ GoFr: The Opinionated Go Framework That Just Solved My Boilerplate Problem

#opensource #microservices #productivity #go

1 min read

Chris Yaowen Zhang

Oct 23

Announcing Enthusiast 1.4: AI Agents Meet E-commerce Workflows

#ecommerce #opensource #ai

3 min read

Yousef

Oct 23

Synthetic Attributes in Rhino

#webdev #opensource #ruby #rails

4 min read

Judy

Oct 22

Something Could Double the Development Efficiency of Java Programmers

#programming #devops #opensource #java

6 min read

Oct 21

@spexop/react v0.3.1: Building with Primitives-First Philosophy

#react #typescript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Arjun

Oct 22

Rowboat: The open-source alternative to Notion's new custom agents with native MCP support

#ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

perber

Oct 26

LeafWiki - Finding Clarity in Open Source

#markdown #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Braimer

Oct 27

FarmSmart Maintainer Spotlight: Your AI-Powered Farming Companion

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

8 min read

Nakul Dev

Oct 23

N8N: Automate Anything Without Losing Your Mind

#opensource #tooling #automation #productivity

1 min read

Oct 22

Need open source project contributors for my public work-performance record platform

#webdev #opensource #node #javascriptlibraries

1 min read

Oct 22

I improved the Developer Experience of Litmus Documentation

#discuss #opensource #litmuschaos

3 min read

Andres B.

Oct 21

Feedback wanted for VDI open source project

#virtualmachine #opensource #programming

2 min read

Md Rasheduzzaman

Oct 22

🚀 Simplify ZKTeco Biometric Device Integration in PHP — No SDK Needed!

#opensource #iot #php #tooling

2 min read

NocoBase

Oct 22

Built an AI Multimodal R&D Platform in Days — with NocoBase

#news #opensource #nocode #ai

4 min read

Oct 21

dangerfile.ts in Storybook codebase.

#opensource #dangerjs #review #pr

3 min read

bwi

Oct 21

Building with Capabilities: The Core API

#dotnet #csharp #architecture #opensource

12 min read

bwi

Oct 21

Power Patterns: Where Capability Composition Shines

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #architecture

12 min read

Achraf Bouzekri

Oct 21

NudgePal: Building an Open Source Bill Tracker with React Native

#reactnative #react #mobile #opensource

1 min read

Chinmay Bhosale

Oct 20

Search Types in Cognee

#ai #architecture #opensource

11 min read

Oct 21

Genesis DB Community Edition: Open Access to a Modern Event-Sourcing Database

#news #database #opensource

1 min read

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