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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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This Open Source Tool Saves Me Thousands of Dollars

#ai #docker #opensource #cloud

4 min read

Isaac Lee

Jun 2

It’s Time to Separate: Lint and Format

#ember #prettier #javascript #opensource

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flo merian

Jun 1

Who's hiring — June 2025

#career #devrel #writing #opensource

2 min read

@codingsh

Jun 2

Building the Future of Polkadot Development: Why PAPI Simulator's Community Templates Are Revolutionary

#polkadot #web3 #programming #opensource

6 min read

Jun 2

How Political Symbolism Becomes Structure: A Quiet Erosion of Identity

#discuss #opensource #leadership #community

1 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Jun 2

Supercharge Your Workflow: Cursor Free VIP – The Developer's Secret Weapon

#automation #web #crossplatform #opensource

3 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Jun 2

Setting Up Presto with Apache Superset using Docker 🐳 : Hands-On Guide

#opensource #datascience #presto #dataengineering

3 min read

Jun 2

Get Real-Time Security Alerts: Integrating Fail2Ban with Microsoft Teams 🛡️

#opensource

3 min read

Jun 2

From ZIP File to Folder Tree in Seconds – Introducing ZipTree

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jun 2

I built a side project with a friend — and it’s way better than working alone.

#showdev #webdev #opensource #startup

5 min read

VISHNU VARDHAN REDDY

Jun 2

ScrapeSome: Effortless Web Scraping for JavaScript Heavy Sites — The Developer Friendly Scraper That Just Works

#opensource #python #playwright #devtools

3 min read

VISHNU VARDHAN REDDY

Jun 2

ScrapeSome: Effortless Web Scraping for JavaScript Heavy Sites — The Developer Friendly Scraper That Just Works

#python #playwright #403 #opensource

3 min read

Jun 2

✨ Pure CSS Sorcery: 7 Ways to Conquer JavaScript Dependency

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

tomoikey

Jun 2

Rust builder pattern library - what do you think?

#rust #programming #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 2

Project KARL AI

#ai #kotlin #programming #opensource

1 min read

Mohammad Anzawi

Jun 1

Meridian Workflow – Build Type-Safe, Fluent Workflows in .NET +8 Without the Bloat

#opensource #dotnet #csharp #devtools

2 min read

douvy

Jun 1

Open Source Recipe Site with Nextjs + MDX

#nextjs #opensource #webdev #markdown

1 min read

Mr Chike

Jun 2

🔥 FastAPI in Production: Build, Scale & Deploy – Series A: Codebase Design

#discuss #fastapi #python #opensource

9 min read

Jun 1

Simplify Your API Calls in React with em-use-controller

#webdev #programming #react #opensource

1 min read

Ivanildo Barauna

Jun 1

Ter um site pessoal é o melhor projeto de engenharia que você pode fazer por você mesmo.

#career #opensource #programming #devops

2 min read

Jun 1

Day 4 of #30DaysRHCSAChallenge – Who Knew File Permissions Had More Drama Than a Reality Show?

#challenge #linux #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jun 2

Open Source Is Waiting for You: How to Stop Being Afraid and Start Contributing

#opensource #webdev #beginners #career

5 min read

Jun 1

A compiler for X86 and ARM at the same time

#discuss #programming #opensource #cpp

1 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 1

DeadLock - First Commit

#opensource #python #datascience #machinelearning

2 min read

Aniket Raj

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Project KARL AI

#ai #kotlin #programming #opensource

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