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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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LaTerral Williams

May 30

🐧Real-World Linux: A Beginner's Journey Through the Command Line

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #cloud

6 min read

Chitransh Soral

May 30

DeadLock: A Smart Way To Manage Your Data Science Projects

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

2 min read

Prasoon

May 30

🌟 Introducing Gold: A Creative Programming Language for the Modern Web

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Jun 22

GSoC Coding Period Week 3:

#appdev #opensource #flutter

3 min read

May 30

✅ Laravel Cookie Consent – Plug & play GDPR/DSGVO modal

#laravel #php #opensource #plugin

1 min read

Prasanna Indunil

May 30

The Unexpected Open-Source Hub in Sri Lanka’s Hill Country

#opensource #srilanka

1 min read

May 30

Window.performance in nuqs source code.

#window #opensource #nuqs #nextjs

2 min read

suxin2017

May 30

Rust High-Performance Proxy: How lynx-server Reached 100 GitHub Stars

#rust #proxy #github #opensource

3 min read

Walid

May 29

🚀 A Flutter Progress Bar That Shimmers — shimmer_progress_bar is Here!

#flutter #uidesign #dart #opensource

2 min read

Sriharsha Donthireddy

Jun 13

What Are LLMs? Why They’re a Dev’s Superpower for Coding and Beyond

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #futurechallenge

2 min read

Evaldas Visockas

May 29

Open-source Quotes webapp

#opensource #api #quotes #webapp

5 min read

Pichandal

Jun 13

Best Ruby on Rails Hosting Providers in 2025 (Backed by 18 Years of Experience)

#programming #ruby #hostingproviders #opensource

4 min read

Joel Milligan for NanoAPI

May 29

Symbol Extraction - Killing Modular Monoliths

#opensource #symbolextraction

4 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 21

Guide to Install Kimi-Dev 72B: The Most Powerful Open-Source Coding LLM

#ai #coding #opensource #vibecoding

6 min read

Edwardvaneechoud

May 29

Stop Drawing ETL Diagrams — Your Python Code Visualizes Itself

#python #dataengineering #opensource #programming

4 min read

May 29

Build Like a Pro, Spend Like a Student

#softwaredevelopment #tools #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Jigz for ZeroOpenSource™

Jun 2

🚀@zeroopensource/zero-official v0.0.2 is live!

#opensource #typescript #npm #javascript

1 min read

NocoBase

May 29

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

Chen Debra

May 29

April Report | DSIP-55 Lands: Dispatched Tasks Now Queued by Worker Group

#bigdata #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming

3 min read

NocoBase

May 29

What made Japan's leading real estate firm switch from Salesforce to open-source NocoBase?

#opensource #crm #hr #lowcode

7 min read

Practical Developer

Jun 20

Comprehensive Guide: Top Open-Source LLM Observability Tools in 2025

#opensource #ai #llm #observability

5 min read

May 29

scheduleFlushToURL function in `nuqs` source code.

#schedule #nuqs #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Mudunuri bhaskara karthikeya varma

Jun 17

EldoraUI : New CLI, SaaS Template & More!

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #react

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jun 20

Project of the Week: Windmill

#discuss #webdev #opensource #github

2 min read

Elanat Framework

Jun 1

30 Facts About WebForms Core Technology - Part Two: The Front Nightmare is Over

#backend #frontend #opensource #webformscore

11 min read

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