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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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Jan 16

Code-ing in a Tree: Adding Auto-Save to freeCodeCamp

#opensource #react #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Marycynthia Ihemebiwo

Dec 22 '25

Explaining What Happens On-Chain vs Off-Chain

#privacy #opensource #blockchain #beginners

1 min read

Dec 21 '25

Digler — Open-Source Disk Forensics and File Recovery Tool

#devops #web #opensource #cli

2 min read

Jan 20

I built an open source markdown note-taking web app and am sharing it with you

#showdev #webdev #opensource #markdown

2 min read

Moin Malek

Dec 21 '25

From a Reel Comment to Open Source: Introducing ClipMotion

#showdev #tooling #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Dec 26 '25

Searching for Team Work

#showdev #python #discuss #opensource

1 min read

Pedro Félix Severo

Dec 21 '25

I created a Labor Calculation Portal (CLT 2025) that is 100% Client-Side (No Backend) and Open Source.

#showdev #frontend #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Henry Odinakachukwu

Dec 22 '25

Fixing a Misleading Diagram Description

#beginners #documentation #opensource

1 min read

Dec 22 '25

Alibaba Qwen Launches Open-Sourced Qwen-Image-Layered with Photoshop-GradeLayering

#news #tooling #ai #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Alten

Dec 21 '25

Stateless Kafka-compatible brokers backed by object storage, k8s native

#go #kubernetes #opensource #kafka

1 min read

Andy Ryan

Jan 25

Why We Built Headless Bridge: The Problem with WPGraphQL

#wordpress #webdev #performance #opensource

8 min read

Dec 20 '25

Show DEV: Render Markdown in Leptos 0.8 with zero configuration 🦀

#showdev #rust #leptos #opensource

1 min read

Dec 21 '25

Adding a Missing Example for Privacy Controls

#privacy #web3 #documentation #opensource

1 min read

Damian

Dec 20 '25

The Missing Step in RAG: Why Your Vector DB is Bloated (and how to fix it locally)

#dataengineering #rag #python #opensource

3 min read

ALEKSEI SOKOLOV

Jan 25

Explicit by Default: Designing a Boring Mediator for .NET

#dotnet #architecture #opensource #softwaredesign

5 min read

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