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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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Jul 24 '25

Forked by Cursor: The Hidden Cost of VS Code Fragmentation

#programming #vscode #ai #opensource

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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

Jun 24 '25

Quebrei a barreira do 'medo' de contribuir em open source e criei uma ferramenta para te ajudar também

#opensource #career #beginners

3 min read

Jul 13 '25

🎨 I Created My First VS Code Theme, Introducing VoidCore

#vscode #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Samy Fodil

Jul 23 '25

Your Software, Your Cloud: Building Your Own Vercel Ain't That Hard!

#devops #cloud #selfhosted #opensource

6 min read

Jul 23 '25

A FREE and Open Source Airtable Alternative - How to Spin Up NocoDB Using Docker

#watercooler #docker #opensource #database

5 min read

Jul 23 '25

MonkeysLegion v1.0.0 is Live 🚀 — Feather-Light PHP Framework Hits Stable

#php #laravel #symfony #opensource

2 min read

Cody Marsengill

Jul 24 '25

Introducing marchat: A Real-Time Terminal-Based Chat App in Go

#go #opensource #terminal #websockets

2 min read

Pierre Bouillon

Jul 23 '25

Launching and Building PocketBase.Net in the Open

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #pocketbase

4 min read

Sharon

Jun 20 '25

Hands-On with SafeLine WAF 7.0: Open Source, Powerful, and Bot-Proof

#safeline #waf #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Jul 23 '25

10+ Free and Open Source n8n Workflow Automation Templates to Boost Your Productivity

#opensource #n8n #automation #productivity

4 min read

Jul 23 '25

Fun project

#programming #productivity #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jun 19 '25

Agent Streams Are a Mess. Here's How We Got Ours to Make Sense

#agentframework #ai #opensource #llm

6 min read

Justin Schroeder

Jul 22 '25

Building Bod.Coach: LLM Lessons Learned The Hard Way.

#ai #webdev #opensource #programming

8 min read

Rafif

Jul 23 '25

Real-Time Video Streaming Using Kafka, Flask & OpenCV

#kafka #opensource #programming

8 min read

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