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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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Thomas Bnt

Oct 5

Share us your project for Hacktoberfest 2025! 🎃

#discuss #hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource

1 min read

daniele pelleri

Oct 5

Orchestro: Trello for Claude Code — with a built-in Scrum Master

#mcp #claudecode #ai #opensource

2 min read

Avicienna Ulhaq

Oct 6

Why I Built Things-Kit: A Spring Boot Alternative for Go

#showdev #go #microservices #opensource

7 min read

Hovo for Volixta

Oct 6

How to Activate SSL and Security Headers for WordPress in 2 Clicks

#wordpress #webdev #security #opensource

3 min read

Oct 6

My First Open Source Contribution

#codenewbie #github #opensource

2 min read

Mak Sò

Oct 5

🧠Why OrKa-Reasoning: what orcas can teach us about building smart agent teams 🐋

#ai #programming #opensource #agentaichallenge

4 min read

Alejandro Navas

Oct 4

wyr: Typesafe Dependency Injection for TypeScript (and why I built it)

#architecture #opensource #typescript #tooling

4 min read

ReverseVideoSearch.app

Oct 5

Reverse Video Search: Find Similar Videos by Content

#ai #computervision #opensource #videosearch

2 min read

PRAS Samin

Oct 5

I made an open-source, ad-free content downloader that simply works

#showdev #privacy #opensource #tooling

1 min read

nyaomaru

Oct 5

Build isXXX the Easy Way? Meet is-kit

#typescript #opensource #util #programming

2 min read

Eagle Kensington

Oct 5

SplitWire-Turkey Kurulumu ve Discord İçin DPI Aşımı Yöntemleri

#networking #opensource #tooling #tutorial

4 min read

Dmitrii

Oct 5

Choosing the Right AI Model for Stock Prediction

#ai #beginners #opensource

5 min read

AMZY31

Oct 5

LUXARG

#javascript #linux #ubuntu #opensource

2 min read

Oct 5

Daily Tech Byte: 2025-10-05

#javascript #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

1 min read

Alex Yan for Datastrato

Oct 5

Apache Gravitino 1.0.0 — From Metadata Management to Contextual Engineering

#dataengineering #opensource #cloud #architecture

7 min read

Mak Sò

Oct 5

OrKa 0.9.4: cleaner logs, full GraphScout paths, ISO timestamps

#ai #agentaichallenge #rag #opensource

1 min read

Arvind Sundara Rajan

Oct 5

Democratizing Heart Health: AI-Powered ECG Analysis for Chagas Disease

#datascience #machinelearning #healthtech #opensource

2 min read

Arvind Sundara Rajan

Oct 4

Decoding Hearts: AI-Powered ECG Analysis for Silent Diseases

#datascience #machinelearning #healthtech #opensource

2 min read

Jefferson Otoni Lima

Oct 4

Quick Framework e algumas Melhorias de Performance

#backend #opensource #performance #go

6 min read

Syed Ali

Oct 4

Threat Intelligence Feeds Are Broken — And We’re Fixing the Trust Problem No One Talks About

#threatintelligence #cybersecurity #opensource #blockchain

3 min read

ElshadHu

Oct 3

How I Made My First Successful Hacktoberfest Pull Request

#github #opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Oct 4

Why GitHub to AI Ingester Exists: The Repository Verification Gap

#github #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Jon Davis

Oct 3

C# (Maybe) Joins the Motia Family: Building Multi-Language Workflows with .NET 9

#showdev #opensource #dotnet #csharp

7 min read

Kyle Homen

Oct 3

OSD600 Lab 4

#cpp #cli #opensource

4 min read

睿廷洪

Oct 4

I built a Chrome extension that lets you automatically solve CAPTCHAs with Google Gemini — and it’s totally FREE!

#showdev #opensource #automation #gemini

1 min read

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