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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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Jean-Gaël

Jul 1 '25

Automate GitHub like a pro: Build your own bot with TypeScript and Serverless

#github #programming #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Fabian Frank Werner

Jul 31 '25

How to Self-Host n8n for Free (Local & Cloud)

#tutorial #opensource #learning #beginners

2 min read

Marcello Novelli

Jul 10 '25

5 Essential React Hooks to master UI and DOM

#webdev #react #ui #opensource

5 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Jul 22 '25

The Best Resources for Getting Started with Agents in 2025

#opensource #webdev #programming #ai

16 min read

Jul 30 '25

Common Challenges in Migration Projects and How to Overcome Them

#opensource #cloudcomputing #itstrategy

5 min read

NocoBase

Jul 30 '25

Top 8 Open Source MCP Projects with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #mcp #ai #llm

12 min read

Jul 30 '25

Creating Smart Text Input in Streamlit with Real-Time Suggestions

#streamlit #ai #opensource #python

4 min read

Ayokanmi Adejola

Jun 26 '25

Growing My Frontend Portfolio & Network: Join Me

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Flexprice

Jul 30 '25

We've Raised $500K to Build the Open-Source Billing Stack for AI and Agentic Companies

#go #stripe #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jul 30 '25

From DynamoDB Limitations to PostgreSQL Innovation: How I Built AuroraWire

#aws #postgres #opensource #serverless

3 min read

Jul 30 '25

React Authentication Made Easy with Keycloak

#keycloak #security #react #opensource

2 min read

TROJAN

Jul 29 '25

MIA – The AI Assistant That Might Replace You (or Just Roast You)

#python #opensource #ai #fastapi

1 min read

Pavel

Aug 15 '25

I Gave My LLM a Promotion: Now It Delegates Its Own Work

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Can Mingir for GreyCollar

Jun 25 '25

📢 GreyCollar: Supervised Agentic AI Project

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #typescript

6 min read

Cristian Paul Castañeda

Jul 29 '25

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

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