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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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Yatharth Sanghavi

Aug 24

How to Build a Telegram Movie Bot with Python: Complete Guide to Moviezinfo Bot Development 🎬

#telegram #python #opensource #api

8 min read

Jul 21

Scaling Without Limits: Auto-Sharding for the AI-Driven Future

#web3 #ai #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Joshua Dimaunahan

Jul 21

How I Made GitHub Open Source PRs Without Login in My VSCode Theme

#github #opensource #programming #javascript

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

Aug 13

🚀How to Set Up a RHEL 9 VM in AWS EC2 and Connect with PuTTY (Beginner-Friendly Guide)

#linux #cloudwhistler #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Trix Cyrus

Aug 24

Linux From Zero Part - 1🐧 What is Linux? A Simple Guide for Beginners

#linux #beginners #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

ByteKnight

Jul 21

IPFS

#ipfs #decentralized #opensource

1 min read

Aug 13

From Zero to Contributor: My First Year in Open Source as a Junior Dev

#github #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

Sep 10

Why I built Wuchale: Protobuf-like i18n from plain code

#i18n #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Calum

Jul 21

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1753087

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jul 20

GitPilot

#git #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jul 20

Launching ANCP — Secure Login for AI Agents Without VPN or OAuth

#ai #security #authentication #opensource

2 min read

Calum

Jul 20

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1753022

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Misha Zaslavskiy

Aug 22

Licenses monitoring dashboard installation

#cad #grafana #prometheus #opensource

5 min read

Optimajet Limited

Aug 12

FormEngine Core is Now Open Source

#react #opensource #frontend #webdev

5 min read

Lucas M.

Jul 24

How to set a timeout to RSpec test executions

#rails #ruby #opensource #programming

11 min read

Calum

Jul 20

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1753001

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jay

Aug 22

How I Tried to Create a Linux From Scratch Beast and Instead Summoned Pain

#linux #opensource #learning

3 min read

Wexop

Aug 2

react-console-notify | Made a small React package to show console logs in the UI

#react #npm #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Aug 22

Project of the Week: n8n

#discuss #opensource #github #programming

3 min read

Calum

Jul 20

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752979

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Patrick

Jul 20

How I Built a Database Debugging Tool for Rails and Why You Might Need It

#ruby #rails #devtools #opensource

2 min read

sai vamshi

Jul 19

🚀 Introducing SyntaxRush: A Terminal-Based Code Typing Game for Developers

#go #opensource #cli #terminal

2 min read

Sharon

Jul 24

Top 5 Open Source WAFs to Secure Your Web Apps in 2025

#opensource #waf #cybersecurity

3 min read

call518

Aug 22

MCP-Server for PostgreSQL Operations

#postgres #tooling #monitoring #opensource

14 min read

Sep 6

Why Developer Advocacy Matters in India: A Guide for Aspiring Advocates

#devrel #community #opensource #developer

3 min read

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