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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.

submission guidelines

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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why i built yet another todo app

#showdev #opensource #productivity #localfirst

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marcosomma

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#ai #opensource #programming #rag

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Open source - The gateway to professionalism

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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Building PeopleHub: An AI-Powered LinkedIn Intelligence Platform with LangGraph and Bright Data

#ai #typescript #nextjs #opensource

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Nov 28 '25

Building Trinity Shield™ Custom In House TEE for Multi-Chain Consensus Seeking Open Source Feedback

#blockchain #security #rust #opensource

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Helios Engine v0.4.3 Update — Smarter Tooling and Easier Initialization

#rust #ai #agents #opensource

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Introducing Free RAG for Claude Code — Save Tokens & Time

#tooling #llm #opensource #productivity

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🎃 Contribute to a Go REST API Boilerplate — Perfect for Hacktoberfest Beginners!

#hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource #go

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Hacktoberfest 2025: Diário de Campo, Semana 4

#hacktoberfest #ai #git #opensource

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Natali

Oct 26 '25

Designing an AI Immune System: Safeguarding AGI from Cognitive Errors

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

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Nov 27 '25

Timepicker-UI v4: Rewritten From Scratch After 5 Years

#showdev #typescript #frontend #opensource

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Apache SeaTunnel

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Designing and Building X2SeaTunnel through AI Coding

#apacheseatunnel #opensource #coding #ai

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Haneem

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I Tested 7 Open Source Clerk Alternatives for Full-Stack Developers

#opensource #typescript #development #webdev

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Kyle Homen

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Hacktoberfest Week 3

#godot #opensource

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Nov 6 '25

Building SwiftCacheSDK: A Lightweight Image Caching Library for iOS

#swift #ios #opensource #mobile

4 min read

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