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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

Jan 15

The "Kernel" release of the Agent Control Plane is finally here.

#agents #architecture #opensource #security

3 min read

Andrea Debernardi

Jan 15

From VS Code to Zed: building a FreeMarker extension because I needed one

#tooling #software #coding #opensource

3 min read

dbc2201

Jan 17

The Developer You Could Become: Reclaiming India's Place in Open Source

#beginners #career #motivation #opensource

12 min read

Igor Giamoniano

Jan 17

How to Build The Rust Programming Language Book Locally on Linux

#rust #beginners #documentation #opensource

3 min read

Jan 17

Google Just Cut Android AOSP Releases in Half (And Your Side Project Might Be Screwed)

#discuss #android #opensource #mobile

5 min read

Jan 17

Automatic Language Support: Add a Modern TR/EN Toggle to Any PHP/HTML Site (Fast)

#php #javascript #i18n #opensource

2 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 17

Building Tamper-Evident Audit Trails for Trading Systems: A Deep Dive into VCP v1.1

#cryptography #fintech #opensource

12 min read

Yagnesh

Jan 17

🧩 I Built a Privacy-First Chrome Extension to Collect Public Emails from LinkedIn

#chromeextension #javascript #opensource

2 min read

BLACKDWARF for SIPHON

Jan 17

We Open-Sourced Our AI Calling Framework (So You Don't Waste 2-3 Months)

#agents #opensource #python #ai

3 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 17

Building Cryptographic Audit Trails for TradingView Strategies with VCP

#opensource #tradingview #python #cryptography

5 min read

DrSkyle

Jan 17

I built a local-first AWS cost killer in Go (Open Source)

#devops #aws #cloudcomputing #opensource

2 min read

Jan 17

Enterprise-Grade Access Control for Python Apps - Battle-Tested & Open Source

#opensource #python #rbac #security

2 min read

Jan 17

FileCloud: A Modern and Lightweight File Manager

#opensource #filemanager #webdev #node

3 min read

Jan 17

Claude Code Keeps Forgetting Your Project? Here's the Fix (2026)

#ai #claudecode #productivity #opensource

4 min read

keke lele

Jan 17

How I Built a Free Arabic Calligraphy Generator with SVG Export

#webdev #javascript #opensource #design

1 min read

정용훈

Jan 16

Stop Pasting Production Tokens into Random Websites. Here’s a Safer Alternative.

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jan 17

Students X Professionals X GitHub

#github #opensource #learning #career

3 min read

Jan 14

Stop Zipping Folders: How I Built a Zero-Trust Tunnel to Share Files Instantly (in Go)

#go #opensource #cli #security

3 min read

azu

Jan 16

JSer.info 15th Anniversary: Looking Back at 15 Years of JavaScript

#javascript #webdev #newsletter #opensource

12 min read

ACHANTA MANOJ KUMAR

Jan 17

Built My Own Open-Source PDF Tool

#webdev #programming #opensource #pdf

1 min read

MAHER X

Jan 16

Uqda Network vs Regular Internet: A Real-World Comparison 📊

#networking #privacy #cybersecurity #opensource

7 min read

WIOWIZ Technologies

Jan 16

VHE: GPU-Accelerated Gate-Level Simulation at Zero License Cost

#dv #gpu #opensource #semiconductor

2 min read

Jan 16

CodeCoach — A new way of practicing codeforces

#opensource #learning #coding

1 min read

Jeff Smith

Jan 16

I Built a TypeScript SDK for John Deere Because Nobody Else Did

#typescript #opensource #agriculture #javascript

1 min read

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