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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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Atharv Remeshan

Jul 30 '25

Rate my first Front-end project

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Luis Gustavo S. Barreto

Jul 29 '25

drera-labs: Terminal website

#webdev #opensource #linux #cli

3 min read

kobaltGIT

Jul 29 '25

I Built a Telegram Bot That Remembers Everything But Knows Nothing About You

#python #telegram #opensource #privacy

4 min read

Saksham Kushwaha

Jun 26 '25

building the CLI tool that I wish shadcn/ui had

#webdev #cli #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Abubakersiddique771

Jul 18 '25

I Stopped Doing These 5 “Smart” Things — And Became a Better Developer

#programming #productivity #mobile #opensource

3 min read

Jul 29 '25

Understanding Distributed Consensus and Data Replication day 17 of learning system design

#programming #opensource #learning #database

7 min read

DeRucci69

Jun 25 '25

runtime API discovery for LLM agents using a simple agents.json

#api #ai #llm #opensource

1 min read

Melih

Jul 8 '25

Stop Paying $500/Month to Experiment with AI - Run Everything Locally with LocalCloud

#ai #aiops #opensource #developertools

5 min read

Jul 28 '25

Turning VS Code into a Product Framework

#webdev #ai #vscode #opensource

7 min read

Alexandru Biscoveanu

Jul 17 '25

Episode 1: Reimagining Assembly for the 21st Century

#showdev #opensource #programming #cpp

7 min read

Roberto

Jun 24 '25

🚀 Tirne — Zero-Boilerplate APIs with Edge-Native Speed & Type-Safe Architecture

#showdev #webdev #opensource #backend

2 min read

righ

Jul 28 '25

GridSheet v2 – A Modern, Extensible Spreadsheet Engine for the Web

#webdev #react #vue #opensource

2 min read

Jul 28 '25

RabbitMQ: The Superhero My API Didn’t Know It Needed

#node #webdev #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Mistants

Jun 25 '25

I couldn't find a simple sound player for my project, so I built and open-sourced one.

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Jul 22 '25

📢 New Docs: How We Revamped Our Documentation with Astro Starlight 🌌

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

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