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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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#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

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#showdev #opensource #pwa #react

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Ushakov Michael for Wissance

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#dotnet #csharp #opensource #api

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Flameshot - My favorite screeshot app

#flameshot #cli #opensource #macos

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NocoBase

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7 Powerful Open Source Alternatives to Zapier

#opensource #tooling #github #zapier

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What if everything in your app was a stream?

#webdev #javascript #reactive #opensource

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ByteKnight

Sep 2 '25

Orbot for Android: Secure Your Traffic with Tor

#android #mobile #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

sarabadu

Aug 21 '25

What is blocking us from contributing more

#opensource #innersource #contribution

3 min read

Asouei

Sep 2 '25

Stop Wrapping Every fetch() in try/catch — A Safer Error Handling for TypeScript

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

6 min read

Abdul Rehman Khan

Aug 3 '25

The New Era of Self-Hosting: Why Developers Are Taking Back Control

#selfhosting #devops #privacy #opensource

3 min read

Serhii Kuianov for FaynoSync

Sep 1 '25

I Built faynoSync: A Self-Hosted API for Automatic App Updates

#go #api #opensource #development

2 min read

Jul 30 '25

Solving Redis pain in NestJS — introducing nestjs-redis toolkit

#nestjs #redis #opensource #node

2 min read

Sherin Jebamalar M

Sep 1 '25

🍔 I Accidentally Became a Restaurant Owner (In Electron.js)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #electron

2 min read

LumGenLab

Sep 1 '25

I Built a GPT Model from Scratch in C++ (Runs on 2GB RAM!)

#machinelearning #deeplearning #opensource #cpp

2 min read

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