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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 2

Better than Claude Code

#github #opensource #rag

1 min read

Shahid Foy

Jul 3

Adding Passkey Login to My Open Source Project n1netails Using Yubico and WebAuthn

#passkeys #security #fullstack #opensource

4 min read

Pichandal

Jun 13

Best Ruby on Rails Hosting Providers in 2025 (Backed by 18 Years of Experience)

#programming #ruby #hostingproviders #opensource

4 min read

Joel Milligan for NanoAPI

May 29

Symbol Extraction - Killing Modular Monoliths

#opensource #symbolextraction

4 min read

Linh Hồ

Jul 2

I've just released a comprehensive document on System Design!

#systemdesign #softwareengineering #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

TerraformMonkey

Jul 2

Stop Breaking OpenTofu: These 5 Errors Are Killing Your Deployment

#terraform #opensource #devops #sre

3 min read

Edwardvaneechoud

May 29

Stop Drawing ETL Diagrams — Your Python Code Visualizes Itself

#python #dataengineering #opensource #programming

4 min read

May 29

Build Like a Pro, Spend Like a Student

#softwaredevelopment #tools #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Jul 2

Ngrok GitHub: The New Ngrok Isn’t Open Source, But Here’s a drop-in Open Source Alternative

#ngrok #github #opensource #tunneling

5 min read

Jigz for ZeroOpenSource™

Jun 2

🚀@zeroopensource/zero-official v0.0.2 is live!

#opensource #typescript #npm #javascript

1 min read

NocoBase

May 29

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

Chen Debra

May 29

April Report | DSIP-55 Lands: Dispatched Tasks Now Queued by Worker Group

#bigdata #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming

3 min read

fmerian

Jul 1

Who's hiring — July 2025

#career #devrel #writing #opensource

2 min read

NocoBase

May 29

What made Japan's leading real estate firm switch from Salesforce to open-source NocoBase?

#opensource #crm #hr #lowcode

7 min read

May 29

scheduleFlushToURL function in `nuqs` source code.

#schedule #nuqs #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Dmitrii Mikhailov

Jun 30

Fluent CLI in PHP: Creating Console Commands with __call and No Boilerplate

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Mudunuri bhaskara karthikeya varma

Jun 17

EldoraUI : New CLI, SaaS Template & More!

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #react

2 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jul 1

The Debugger's Mindset: How Top Developers Handle Burnout Like Code Issues

#productivity #webdev #opensource #devops

7 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jul 2

How to Install FLUX.1-Kontext-Dev Locally?

#fluxkontextdev #opensource #ai #imagegen

11 min read

Jul 1

0delay — The Best Diss Linux-to-Linux File Transfer System You Will Wanna Use.

#linux #opensource #github #computerscience

3 min read

Jul 2

A No-Risks Linux Terminal in Your Browser (Debian Edition 🐧)

#webdev #python #opensource #learning

2 min read

Jul 2

🚀 Build the Perfect GitHub Profile README with My Open Source Generator!

#github #opensource #ai #community

2 min read

GOLU YADAV

Jul 2

Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms

#crypto #opensource #cicd

3 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 5

Why Legal Systems Fail Against Executable Sovereigns: Law Doesn’t See the Code

#law #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Jul 2

A Practical Guide to Evaluating Open-Source Admin Dashboards’ Flexibility

#opensource #github #lowcode #tooling

4 min read

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