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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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dw1

Jan 4

Introducing mmapfile: Unlock Fast File Access in Go with Memory-Mapped I/O

#go #performance #opensource

6 min read

Dec 30 '25

🚀 A Lightweight Document Summarization Tool Built with React

#react #opensource #ai #webdev

2 min read

Furkan Gözükara

Dec 29 '25

How to Use SwarmUI Presets & Workflows in ComfyUI + Custom Model Paths Setup for ComfyUI & SwarmUI

#ai #beginners #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Marko

Jan 23

Spring CRUD Generator (v1.0.0): Generate Spring Boot CRUD, Flyway, tests & more from YAML/JSON

#java #springboot #opensource #webdev

1 min read

user19870

Dec 30 '25

What is cppsp?

#cppsp #programming #cpp #opensource

2 min read

krish

Dec 29 '25

[Project Breakdown] Syncord: Encrypted File Storage via Discord

#programming #sideprojects #python #opensource

6 min read

freerave

Feb 1

I Built a Native RTL Python GUI with Tkinter (and it actually looks good)

#showdev #python #opensource #gui

2 min read

Adam

Dec 30 '25

Add a repository health badge to your GitHub README in 10 seconds

#showdev #github #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 29 '25

Day 36 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Dec 29 '25

Stop writing 'fix' as your commit message: My journey automating a full Git workflow with Go 🧉

#go #ai #git #opensource

4 min read

Marc Anton Dahmen

Dec 29 '25

Automad 2.0 Beta, the Next-Level CMS

#webdev #opensource #buildinpublic #website

2 min read

Barbora Klusackova

Jan 23

Devlog-OSS-Finder-02: First Deployment Done

#opensource #aws #devlog #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Caroline Harper

Jan 13

How PS2 Emulation Works on Android (BIOS, Performance, and Common Bottlenecks)

#android #emulation #opensource #performance

2 min read

Karthikey

Dec 30 '25

Building an IntelliSense-style Shell History Tool in C++20

#productivity #opensource #linux #cpp

3 min read

Dec 29 '25

🚀 Headless UI for Building Powerful Tables & Data Grids

#opensource #datagrid #webdev #react

2 min read

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