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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 15

Music Monday Spotify Open-Source Sync Bot

#ruby #opensource #automation #music

2 min read

Jess Lee

Dec 15

Share your projects in our end of year Show & Tell event!

#showdev #muxchallenge #devchallenge #opensource

1 min read

Shayan

Dec 15

I Fixed Blender's Render Output Paths ( Because it SUCKS! )

#showdev #blender #opensource

1 min read

Dec 15

Why I Built Framework-Agnostic UI Components with Web Components

#webcomponents #typescript #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Dec 15

I Built CodeContext: An AI-Powered Tool That Analyzes Any Codebase in Seconds

#kotlin #opensource #devtools #ai

5 min read

Alan Tsai

Dec 15

An AI Almost Deleted My Code

#ai #opensource #devtools #programming

4 min read

John Napiorkowski

Dec 15

PAGI::Server Performance and Hardening

#showdev #testing #performance #opensource

2 min read

gamh5games

Dec 15

Designing Difficulty Curves That Work in Browser Platformer Games

#tutorial #devops #python #opensource

2 min read

Triple Gyrus Core

Dec 15

Toward Version 2 of Triple Gyrus Core with Community Feedback

#a11y #opensource

4 min read

Dec 15

Open Source AI tool that gives your coding agents DevOps superpowers

#ai #devops #aws #opensource

2 min read

Göktürk Talha Çetin

Dec 15

How I Built a Script to Bulk Unlike All Songs on YouTube Music (2025 - Anti-Spam Edition)

#javascript #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

Dec 15

Debug Fiber APIs Like a Pro with GoRequestTracer: JSON Logging, DB Queries, and Panic Tracking

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Edvin

Dec 15

I built the Ultimate Open Source YouTube Downloader (No Ads, Next.js 16) 🎥

#nextjs #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dec 15

How I ship power-options to all major Linux distros with 0 hassle

#linux #devops #opensource #programming

2 min read

Coroot

Dec 15

Monitoring a Docker Homelab with Open Source

#devops #kubernetes #docker #opensource

5 min read

Dec 15

How Deep Agents Actually Work: A Browsr Architecture Walkthrough

#ai #opensource #webdev #llm

4 min read

Edvin

Dec 15

I built a Free Spotify to YouTube Music Migrator 🎵 (Python + React)

#python #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 15

Day 25 of improving my Data Science skills

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

sentomk

Dec 15

Patternia - A zero-overhead pattern matching library for C++ with powerful features like generics and structural binding.

#cpp #opensource

1 min read

axevora

Dec 15

🛠️ I Got Tired of Using 10 Different Websites — So I Built One

#ai #productivity #opensource #startup

1 min read

Minimus

Dec 15

Sha1-Hulud 2.0 - The Second Coming: A Technical Breakdown

#security #opensource #devops #javascript

5 min read

Alberto Luiz Souza

Dec 15

Analisando o Código Fonte do Outbox Namastech.io: Uma Implementação Genérica do Outbox Pattern

#java #architecture #springboot #opensource

9 min read

Nelson

Dec 15

Why I Built an Offline Pre-Audit Platform for Supply Chain Security (Before Scanning or Pentesting)

#security #infosec #opensource #cicd

1 min read

Poly scan

Dec 15

Building PolyScan: Free CC0 PBR Textures & 3D Models for Real Projects

#gamedev #unity3d #3dmodling #opensource

1 min read

Dec 15

OptaPlanner in Action: Building Smarter Planning and Scheduling Systems

#ai #java #opensource

4 min read

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