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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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Wexop

Aug 2 '25

react-console-notify | Made a small React package to show console logs in the UI

#react #npm #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Aug 22 '25

Project of the Week: n8n

#discuss #opensource #github #programming

3 min read

Sharon

Jul 24 '25

Top 5 Open Source WAFs to Secure Your Web Apps in 2025

#opensource #waf #cybersecurity

3 min read

call518

Aug 22 '25

MCP-Server for PostgreSQL Operations

#postgres #tooling #monitoring #opensource

14 min read

Sep 6 '25

Why Developer Advocacy Matters in India: A Guide for Aspiring Advocates

#devrel #community #opensource #developer

3 min read

Aug 22 '25

What is a Webhook? A Simple Explanation of Webhook Meaning

#webhook #api #automation #opensource

7 min read

Joel Hans for ngrok

Aug 21 '25

'Doglabbing' ngrok: Eyes-only photo sharing with immich and OIDC

#homelab #devops #opensource #programming

5 min read

Jul 22 '25

Adding a Loading Animation to JHipster Lite CLI

#java #programming #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Aug 20 '25

Bug fix release 2.06 for the Perl Distribution Workflow

#opensource #release #perl

1 min read

Jul 19 '25

Here's how git-mcp.io shows the typewriter effect on its landing page.

#typewritereffect #opensource #api #gitmcp

2 min read

Younes Noorzahi

Jul 22 '25

Routing in Laravel

#laravel #php #opensource

1 min read

f14XuanLv

Aug 21 '25

GitHub PR Stats - Visualization Tool for Creating Beautiful SVG Cards

#opensource #react #typescript #vercel

3 min read

Jul 18 '25

🧠 Kaizen Agent Architecture — How Our AI Agent Improves Other Agents

#discuss #ai #aiops #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18 '25

Free Places to Post Your Early Product — And It Actually Worked

#ai #opensource #marketing #python

2 min read

Jul 31 '25

AI-documentor: "automagic" wiki / docs for your web apps

#opensource #ai #typescript #npm

1 min read

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