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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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Dec 5 '25

There is a Better Way to Discover Trending GitHub Repos 🚀

#news #github #opensource

1 min read

Ratazzi

Dec 4 '25

Set Up Your Mac Development Environment in Minutes with Hola

#productivity #opensource

5 min read

freerave

Jan 8

I built an AI that detects your mood while coding (Locally in VS Code) 🧠✨

#vscode #productivity #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Jonas Pfalzgraf

Dec 6 '25

QRify v1.3: The Privacy-First QR Code Generator Got Even Better! 🔐

#vue #webdev #opensource #programming

3 min read

Tony Larry

Jan 8

I built an open-source, privacy-first PDF toolkit (80+ tools) to replace Adobe. Here is the stack.

#webassembly #nextjs #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Jan 8

I was tired of copying .env files between machines, so we built a CLI

#python #productivity #opensource #security

1 min read

Jan 8

Selenium and its Uses in Automation Testing using Python

#automation #opensource #python #testing

3 min read

Dec 5 '25

Open Source Email Warmup: A Complete Guide

#tooling #tutorial #opensource #automation

7 min read

Jan 8

Reversible Binary Explainer: Proving Directive-Locked AI Explanations with MindsEye

#ai #programming #opensource #mindseye

6 min read

Dec 5 '25

API layer in Umami codebase - Part 1.4

#umami #opensource #architecture #api

4 min read

Caroline Harper

Jan 8

What I Learned While Evaluating Emulator Projects on Android

#emulation #android #opensource #software

1 min read

Jan 8

Stop AI From Ruining Your Architecture: 3 Context Strategies (And How to Automate Them)

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 6

MoonShine 4: AI-Powered Admin Panel Revolution

#laravel #webdev #ai #opensource

18 min read

Jan 8

QuantDinger: An open-source local quantitative trading platform.

#programming #opensource #quantitative #ai

5 min read

Doi-RD

Dec 5 '25

Fumbling in the Dark: A Journey with My Reliable Colleague

#beginners #kiro #opensource #kiroween

9 min read

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