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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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Valerio for Inspector.dev

Mar 28 '25

AI Agents Memory And Context Window In PHP

#php #webdev #ai #opensource

5 min read

Olaide Emmanuel

Mar 17 '25

Exploring Essential Promise Methods in JavaScript.

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 28 '25

[Tutorial] Chapter 5: Tabs & Dynamic blocks

#opensource #tutorial #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

NocoBase

Mar 28 '25

[Tutorial] Chapter 6: User & Permissions

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #tutorial

7 min read

Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Mar 26 '25

How to Build a React Page Builder: Puck and Tailwind v4.0

#opensource #frontend #react #webdev

15 min read

Gus

Mar 27 '25

From Memoryless AI to Modular Presence: Rethinking Long-Term Systems

#ai #opensource #api

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

Mar 27 '25

How to install HUGO with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#hugo #tailwindcss #flowbite #opensource

5 min read

Tib

Mar 27 '25

My participation to the Perl Toolchain Summit 2025

#perl #cpan #opensource #hackathon

3 min read

Mar 27 '25

Why AI Refactoring Is a Rug Pull – The Hidden Risks of Automated Code Changes

#webdev #opensource #ai #githubcopilot

4 min read

Mar 27 '25

Create PERT Charts Easily in React with react-pert

#pertchart #react #opensource

2 min read

Jani Giannoudis

Mar 27 '25

Create a timesheet-based Payroll Application

#opensource #payroll #dotnet #automation

8 min read

Lightning Developer

Mar 27 '25

Local Tunnels: The Simplest Way to Expose Your Local Services Securely

#webdev #tutorial #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Syed Mudasser Anayat

Mar 27 '25

AI is More Dangerous Than We Think

#ai #opensource #futureofai #webdev

3 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 27 '25

NetEase Mail's Migration Journey to DolphinScheduler: 10 Efficiency Improvement

#opensource #apachedolphinscheduler #netease #programming

10 min read

Mar 26 '25

🚀I build JetScript — the focused, modern successor to JavaScript for MVPs, educators, and indie devs.

#startup #opensource #frontend #dsl

2 min read

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