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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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NocoBase

Nov 13 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Dec 17 '25

13 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

Dec 16 '25

Your Diesel Migrations Might Be Ticking Time Bombs

#rust #postgres #database #opensource

6 min read

Dec 16 '25

I was tired of noisy secret scanners, so I built a smarter one in Go (SecScan v2.2)

#security #opensource #beginners #go

2 min read

Dec 14 '25

Building the Ultimate Reddit Scraper: A Full-Featured, API-Free Data Collection Suite

#reddit #scraper #powerplatform #opensource

7 min read

Dec 17 '25

Top DevOps Trends Shaping 2025: What You Need to Know

#ai #opensource #aiops

2 min read

Erica

Dec 16 '25

AI Engineering: Advent of AI with goose Day 9 - Fully Automated Scalable Recipe Tag System

#ai #goose #adventofai #opensource

4 min read

Dec 16 '25

A missing piece in the shadcn ecosystem: react-generic-select.

#react #opensource

2 min read

Coroot

Dec 16 '25

Chaos testing a Postgres cluster managed by CloudNativePG

#devops #postgres #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Fabricio Quagliariello

Dec 16 '25

The OptiPFair Series #1: Forging the Future with Small Models — An Architectural Analysis with Pere Martra

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

8 min read

Michael Amachree

Dec 16 '25

Svelte-MiniApps: A Collection of Single-Purpose Svelte 5 Applications

#svelte #sveltekit #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Nov 13 '25

I’m building an open-source Habit Tracker app!

#reactnative #opensource #mobile

1 min read

Stelixx Insider

Nov 13 '25

Dart Frog: Framework Backend Tối giản, Hiệu quả cho Dự án Mã nguồn Mở

#backend #tooling #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Nov 13 '25

Project standards in Umami codebase - Part 1.1

#umami #prettier #opensource #eslint

4 min read

BuxarNET

Nov 13 '25

How I Built a Thunderbird Translator Without Coding Experience Using AI

#javascript #programming #ai #opensource

6 min read

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