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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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Pramod K B

Jan 9

My First Open Source Contribution Was to an Authentication Project — And It Was Surprisingly Friendly

#opensource #node #typescript #authentication

2 min read

Rolan Lobo

Dec 11 '25

I Built LinkNest Because My Brain Is Full and My Bookmarks Are a Disaster 📲

#flutter #opensource #privacy #productivity

4 min read

Dec 8 '25

Oh, Nice Repo!

#github #opensource

1 min read

Jan 11

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗔𝗜-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗢𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 “𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲” — 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗻’𝘁—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗔𝗜-𝗦𝗟𝗢𝗣 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿

#opensource #codequality #devsecops #programming

2 min read

Jan 12

Why n8n Is Quietly Becoming a Power Tool for DevOps & SRE Teams❓

#devops #ai #automation #opensource

2 min read

Dec 8 '25

Release 0.4- Planning

#webdev #opensource #programming

1 min read

Rabinarayan Patra

May 23

Sanitizer-Lib is Now Live on Maven Central

#news #java #opensource #showdev

2 min read

Jan 12

PC_Workman v1.6.1 UI Refinement: From Clutter to Density in One Night

#buildinpublic #python #uidesign #opensource

1 min read

Dec 8 '25

State management in Umami codebase - Part 1.0

#statemanagement #umami #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Victor Yrazusta Ibarra

Dec 8 '25

Introducing Supabomb: Open Source Supabase Penetration Testing

#supabase #security #opensource #cli

8 min read

Tsiry Sandratraina

Dec 21 '25

Bringing Rockbox's Legendary Audio Engine to the Modern Desktop: A Native Port for Linux and macOS

#rust #opensource #swift #zig

2 min read

Jan 11

Enhancing Claude Code: Turning a Brilliant Showcase into a Modular Plugin Marketplace

#claude #skills #agents #opensource

3 min read

Jan 11

Stop Fighting Your Circuit Breaker: A Physics-Based Approach to Node.js Reliability

#node #devops #architecture #opensource

3 min read

ShyGyver

Jan 11

Building Modern Backends with Kaapi: Request validation Part 2

#showdev #typescript #node #opensource

3 min read

Arnab KarSarkar

Dec 8 '25

I Built an Open-Source Privacy Firewall for ChatGPT (Runs 100% Locally)

#ai #opensource #security #privacy

4 min read

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