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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 18

When DEV.to Stats Aren't Enough: Building My Own Memory

#devto #analytics #python #opensource

12 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Jan 21

5 Open-Source Resume Builders That'll Help Get You Hired in 2026

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

4 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 9

I Shipped the Solution to Knowledge Collapse in 21 Days

#discuss #ai #opensource #activitypub

7 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 6

Welcome to The Foundation: Preserving Developer Knowledge in Public

#discuss #community #opensource #ai

2 min read

Ovi ren

Jan 27

i made buttons that run away from you (prank projects)

#javascript #webdev #html #opensource

4 min read

Jan 16

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

#opensource #react #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Sivaram

Jan 27

From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project

#clawdbot #anthropic #ai #opensource

6 min read

Nick - Ngoc Loc Coc

Jan 16

Stop paying for ngrok! 🛑 Meet NPort: The Free Open Source Alternative

#opensource #javascript #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Polliog

Jan 15

Logtide: 2 Months After Launch (The Real Numbers)

#opensource #startup #programming #webdev

5 min read

christine

Jan 28

Contributing to RubyGems (.org)

#ruby #rails #opensource

4 min read

Hadil Ben Abdallah

Jan 13

Bifrost: The Fastest LLM Gateway for Production-Ready AI Systems (40x Faster Than LiteLLM)

#ai #llm #opensource #go

6 min read

Evgeniy

Feb 4

I brought C++23 to Windows 95 because Microsoft told me my PC was too old

#cpp #programming #devchallenge #opensource

13 min read

Jan 27

Godot 4 in Practice

#discuss #godot #gamedev #opensource

2 min read

Peter H. Boling

Feb 6

Hostile Takeover of RubyGems: My Thoughts

#opensource #ruby #rails #governance

4 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

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