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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 8

🚀 Web API Module ✅ | Database Management Loading...

#programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 21

Project KARL - AI

#ai #kotlin #programming #opensource

1 min read

Tushar

Jun 8

Instant Markdown Notes

#opensource #productivity #node #electron

1 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 7

DeadLock - Parsing JSON

#python #datascience #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Oluwafemi Adelekan

Jun 17

UI Interactions - Seamless Micro-Animations for Better UX

#uxdesign #frontend #figma #opensource

1 min read

Carrie

Jun 17

How I Replaced Cloudflare WAF with an Open Source Self-Hosted Alternative

#cloudflare #waf #selfhosted #opensource

3 min read

Angel Rodriguez

Jun 17

build an email assistant in less than 30 minutes

#automation #tooling #n8n #opensource

5 min read

Jun 6

Building a Scalable Scientific LLM Pipeline: From Raw Data to Hugging Face

#dataengineering #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

ISNDEV

Jun 10

Goodbye, Mutexes: An Introduction to the C++ Actor Model with `qb`

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource #github

4 min read

h13ris

Jun 6

A Website at Home? Yep, Even Without a Static IP!

#webdev #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Val Giner

Jun 9

Building a Modern Grep Alternative for Windows with .NET 9.0

#dotnet #csharp #windowsutility #opensource

2 min read

Kushal_Meghani1644

Jun 15

🚀 Introducing RustyTodos: A Clean, Minimal TUI Todo App in Rust

#programming #opensource #learning #rust

1 min read

Jun 18

Benefits of open source

#opensource #webdev #javascript #beginners

1 min read

Muhammad Ghufran

Jun 4

Building an AI-Powered Git Commit Message Generator with Google Gemini

#git #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

Anisha R

Jun 5

100 days of Coding! Day 6

#beginners #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Peter H. Boling

Jun 8

Ann: OmniAuth::OpenID v2.0.2

#ruby #rails #githubactions #opensource

4 min read

Jun 3

🚀 From Idea to GitHub in 2 Days: Introducing InkCollector

#abotwrotethis #opensource #devjournal #python

2 min read

Siddarth

Jun 3

My Linux Kernel Mentorship experience

#linux #kernel #opensource

2 min read

Code Area

Jun 3

💰 The Best Way to Earn Money Online as a Developer in 2025

#ai #beginners #devops #opensource

2 min read

Juan Manuel Barea Martínez

Jun 3

Llama-Stack: The Developer Framework for LLM Workflows

#ai #development #softwaredevelopment #opensource

1 min read

Jun 3

A Quiz to Explore AI Safety and Trust-Based Access to Advanced Systems

#ai #opensource #chatgpt #security

1 min read

Jun 3

Getting Started with Chart.js – Make Beautiful Charts with Just a Few Lines of Code

#webdev #javascript #opensource #learning

2 min read

Jun 2

Day 5 of #30DaysRHCSAChallenge — The Sticky Bit Strikes Back

#challenge #linux #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Jun 2

GSoC 2025 – Community Bonding with CircuitVerse

#gsoc2025 #circuitverse #opensource #communitybonding

2 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 2

DeadLock - Update

#opensource #python #datascience #machinelearning

1 min read

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