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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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Uche Wendy

Dec 3 '25

Optimizing "GitHub-as-a-Database": Solving Rate Limits with Server-Side Caching

#javascript #node #opensource #performance

3 min read

Nov 3 '25

Creative Tim UI - Open-source shadcn/ui blocks ready for v0, Lovable, Replit, Claude, and more.

#opensource #mcp #vibecoding #webdev

2 min read

Dec 4 '25

It’s official ✦ Google Summer of Code 2026 is coming

#opensource #programming #career #github

2 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Nov 4 '25

Top Open Source Tools for Kubernetes ML: From Development to Production

#ai #beginners #opensource #kubernetes

12 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Oct 31 '25

Add Production-Ready Observability to Your AI Agent Workflows in 5 Minutes

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Can Mingir for Centaur AI

Dec 3 '25

Training Large Reasoning Models

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm

1 min read

Dec 4 '25

Reducing Flaky Tests in CI/CD: A Complete Playbook for Engineering Teams

#flakytest #e2e #testing #opensource

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 3 '25

Hacktoberfest 2025 — My First Time as a Contributor 😼

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Nov 13 '25

TurboMapper

#objectmapper #deepmapper #opensource #conventionbased

13 min read

NocoBase

Dec 4 '25

Community Spotlight: Building a Real-World ERP with NocoBase

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

Oct 30 '25

Dioc library in Hoppscotch codebase.

#dioc #opensource #service #hoppscotch

3 min read

Eppie

Oct 30 '25

Eppie, a new open-source cross-platform email client, on Snap Store🐧

#opensource #programming #linux #security

2 min read

Oluwafemi Adelekan

Oct 30 '25

Deck 11: Free Open‑Source Card Pack for Figma

#figma #opensource #design #productivity

1 min read

MuleRun

Oct 30 '25

MuleRun GACUA: An Open-Source Computer Use Agent That Actually Works

#webdev #ai #opensource #programming

5 min read

Oct 29 '25

Let's Build ExamMate Together - An Open Source Project to Simplify Exam Prep

#opensource #ai #django #react

3 min read

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