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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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Jun 9

Why I’m Building MonkeysLegion—and Why I Hope You’ll Join the Journey

#php #opensource #webdev #devtools

2 min read

Magic.rb

May 31

How My Weekend Project Went Viral on Hacker News

#opensource #programming #webdev #javascript

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 19

Tutorial Dasar Earl: Menggunakan atur dan ambil

#programming #beginners #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

toxi360

May 26

I developed a todo GUI using only C and the Win32 API. I'm open to suggestions and contributions.

#c #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

May 27

How to enable debug mode in nuqs?

#nuqs #opensource #nextjs #debug

4 min read

Elelab

May 26

Enhance Your TCP Troubleshooting: Free Wireshark Profile for Network Engineers

#wireshark #opensource #networking #network

1 min read

CodeBloxer

May 26

Free Responsive Admin Panel UI Template – HTML, CSS, JavaScript Source Code

#webdev #opensource #frontend #javascript

1 min read

Sevaki Rajasekar

Jun 18

A intro for Ente Photos!

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Xeno Studios Software Development

May 27

Educationer - An Open Source Online Education Platform and Management Tool

#opensource #webdev #devops #learning

2 min read

Gustavo A. Gutkoski

May 26

Creating an AI Assistant for Technical Documentation – Part 2.1: Introduction to the Crawler

#python #ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

dmikhr

May 26

A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Writing a Bash Installer Script for Your App

#opensource #cli #programming #bash

9 min read

Coder Acco

May 26

I created an code search web app made in Flask called Codel.

#opensource #softwareengineering #developers #github

1 min read

EvoAgentX

May 26

🌍 EvoAgentX isn’t just a framework. It’s becoming a community.

#news #ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

Dmytro Klimenko

May 26

⚡ WebSockets 101: Real-Time Magic Explained 2.0

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

EvoAgentX

May 26

What Would You Build with a Self-Evolving AI Agent like EvoAgentX?

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

EvoAgentX

May 26

🧠💥 Imagine AI agents that evolve on their own.

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

May 25

DocWire SDK 2025.05.22 Released – A Big Leap for PDF, OCR, and Core Architecture

#news #cpp #opensource #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

May 25

i just relased my first pypi package

#python #flask #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

May 29

Day 1 of #30DaysRHCSAChallenge – Why Can’t This User Log In?

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

2 min read

GitHubOpenSource

May 25

ByteSync: Revolutionizing File Synchronization with Speed and Security

#file #endtoend #opensource #multidevice

3 min read

Mouhamed Wassim Mbarek

May 25

🛡️ Stop Face Spoofing! EasyShield AI: 92% Accuracy optimized for Edge Devices

#ai #security #opensource #python

1 min read

May 25

Auto Tag on Package Version Change - GitHub Action

#github #githubactions #opensource #cicd

1 min read

mosescodedev for Djowda

Jun 12

Why We’re Building Djowda — A Self-Aware Food Tech System Inspired by Nature

#djowda #opensource #foodtech #android

1 min read

May 25

Building Ledger the right way

#fintech #opensource #learning #aws

3 min read

Sharon

May 29

Build a Full Web Security Wall from Scratch — What Can SafeLine WAF Do?

#devsecops #safeline #waf #opensource

3 min read

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