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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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Dec 28 '25

I built a "Local Second Brain" for my AI chats in a single HTML file (No Docker, No DB)

#showdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Sid. B.

Dec 28 '25

The Missing Middle in Linux Desktop Design

#linux #ui #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Feb 2

My First Godot Engine Contribution (and how YOU can start)

#opensource #godotengine #beginners

2 min read

Suresh

Jan 2

CleanCloud v0.4.0: How We Made Cloud Hygiene Scanning 10x Faster

#azure #aws #opensource #devops

5 min read

Dec 30 '25

I built a tint & shades generator for design tokens and Figma

#design #webdev #a11y #opensource

1 min read

Jan 3

Hey. Writing Here Feels Harder Than It Should

#writing #devlive #opensource

1 min read

Dec 29 '25

mise.toml in Immich codebase.

#opensource #mise #immich #media

3 min read

Dec 31 '25

Skyflo: AI agent for Cloud & DevOps

#ai #devops #cloud #opensource

6 min read

Usaid.U.L

Dec 29 '25

Have you heard of Google Summer of Code? There is something similar;

#beginners #career #learning #opensource

1 min read

Ulhas Vardhan Golchha

Feb 1

HTML is Easy to Produce. That’s the Problem.

#html #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

2 min read

Dec 28 '25

Introducing shadcn-data-views: Instant Kanban, Grid, and Calendar for your Data with a Single JSON Schema

#webdev #react #shadcn #opensource

2 min read

Phillip Paul James

Dec 28 '25

I Built a Security Tool at 2 AM Because Copy-Pasting Commands 50 Times Isn't Learning

#cybersecurity #python #automation #opensource

6 min read

Feb 2

No Redis Required: Zero-Config Job Queue for Bun

#bunjs #typescript #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jan 2

We built a Windows app that blocks trackers and encrypts your traffic automatically

#security #privacy #rust #opensource

1 min read

Riccardo Tartaglia

Jan 9

How I build Rikta: a Zero-Config TypeScript Backend Framework

#showdev #typescript #opensource #node

8 min read

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