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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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Praveen

Jul 26 '25

Format, Validate and Beautify JSON Instantly — Introducing Quick JSON

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 25 '25

Project of the Week: Clerk

#discuss #javascript #opensource #clerk

2 min read

Jul 26 '25

I Published My First Python Library: `rs-calculator`

#discuss #python #programming #opensource

1 min read

Dhanush N

Jul 25 '25

This Node.js Package Changes Everything About Running Shell Commands

#opensource #npm #node #javascript

2 min read

Jul 23 '25

[AutoBE] We made AI-friendly Compilers for Vibe Coding, achieving 100% build success (open-source, AWS Kiro like)

#programming #opensource #ai #typescript

13 min read

Pavel

Jul 25 '25

Stop coding. Start architecting. Introducing Serverokey — a Node.js engine for the AI era.

#programming #node #opensource #ai

3 min read

Jul 24 '25

What Vibe Coding Actually Looks Like for a Senior Engineer

#ai #opensource #node #webdev

4 min read

Jul 25 '25

From 'Coming Soon... Maybe' to Actually Shipping: A 2-Year Dev Journey

#webdev #opensource #react #buildinpublic

3 min read

marcosomma

Jul 25 '25

🧠 Local, Trustable and Explainable AI. Not a dream!

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

1 min read

Mohamed Radwan for AWS Community Builders

Jun 21 '25

Enriching Keycloak with LinkedIn VanityName, Headline & Profile Picture via Custom SPI

#keycloak #opensource

3 min read

Beingana Jim Junior

Jun 20 '25

A Guide to contributing to the Conveyor CI Driver Runtime

#opensource #programming #devops #tutorial

7 min read

Pierre Bouillon

Jul 24 '25

Our First Issue: Enhancing Queries With Sorting

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #pocketbase

7 min read

Griseld Gerveni

Jul 4 '25

🚀 Voice AI Workforce: One Voice Interface, Three User Types

#opensource #webdev #voiceinterface #ai

2 min read

Zak Mandhro for PullFlow

Jul 24 '25

Forked by Cursor: The Hidden Cost of VS Code Fragmentation

#programming #vscode #ai #opensource

5 min read

Methum Menthusa

Jul 24 '25

Building Devu a platform to help devs contribute to open source without the overwhelm

#opensource #community #productivity #codenewbie

1 min read

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