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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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Benjamin Touchard

Dec 20 '25

Why I refuse to ship Google Analytics in open-source projects

#opensource #selfhosted #privacy #devops

2 min read

Disc Time Stamps

Jan 2

I built a Discord Timestamp Generator with 100% Page Speed Scores (Open Source)

#ai #discord #opensource #react

2 min read

Rajdeep

Jan 21

Building a mini PyTorch in C++ from scratch as a high school student...

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #development

4 min read

Dec 19 '25

RegExp vs String Manipulation in Go language

#go #regex #performance #opensource

4 min read

Dec 20 '25

I Built SoftLA: A Software-Only Logic Analyzer for UART & I2C Debugging (No Hardware Required)

#embedded #opensource #firmware #debugging

2 min read

Benjamin Touchard

Dec 20 '25

Proving people actually read internal documents is still a mess

#opensource #selfhosted #devops #compliance

2 min read

Henry Odinakachukwu

Dec 20 '25

Fixing Broken Links in the Developer Resources

#documentation #github #resources #opensource

1 min read

Ola Prøis

Jan 24

Beyond Open Source: Why AI-Assisted Projects Need Open Method

#discuss #ai #opensource #rust

7 min read

bingkahu

Jan 24

How I built a timeline of universal events

#webdev #opensource #programming #html

2 min read

Jan 20

I Built a Claude Skill That Roasts Your X Posts Using X's Actual Algorithm

#claude #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jan 24

Building AutoShorts: A High-Performance AI Pipeline for Automated Viral Content 🎬🤖

#showdev #python #ai #opensource

2 min read

freerave

Jan 24

I Built a VS Code Extension to End "README Friction" (And then I broke my own README) 🤦‍♂️

#vscode #opensource #productivity #markdown

2 min read

Dec 31 '25

The Context Graph Manifesto

#ai #programming #opensource #rag

13 min read

zayoka

Dec 24 '25

GenresFox Version 0.4.1 Update

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

xyz abc

Dec 20 '25

10 Insanely Useful Fake Data & Mockup Generators Every Developer Needs in 2025 (All Free, No Signup)

#productivity #programming #tooling #opensource

2 min read

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