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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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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 21

🎙️We have prepared a lot of new things in HMPL.js for developers!

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Emma Blue for MobilityData

May 21

What’s New in the Mobility Database – May 2025 Update

#gtfs #transit #opensource

2 min read

Pavel

May 21

# 🔗 nodeBond – Local IPC Bridge for Node.js (no TCP, no dependencies)

#javascript #opensource #node #devtools

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 21

🧙‍♂️Unlocking Advanced Permissions in Linux with ACLs

#cloudwhistler #cloud #linux #opensource

7 min read

May 21

🔐 Sarah AI — A Local-First, Emotion-Driven AI Built with C++ and Heart

#programming #ai #opensource #cpp

3 min read

May 21

🎉 Spring AI 1.0 Is Here — Making AI Production-Ready for the Enterprise

#genai #opensource #developers #java

2 min read

May 21

🎉 react-emoji-toggle-button is available now!

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

João Paulo Abreu

May 21

Contributing to Elixir Documentation: My Journey with PR #14501

#elixir #opensource #documentation

4 min read

toxi360

May 21

GOSync – My open-source SSH file sync app with tray & encryption

#programming #python #productivity #opensource

1 min read

May 21

🚀 Why Is It Important to Throttle Your API?

#webdev #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

May 21

Wikidata Launches WikidataStories Campaign to Showcase Global Impact of Open Data Projects

#opendata #wikidata #datascience #opensource

2 min read

May 21

Introducing MonkeysLegion: A Next-Gen PHP Framework (and CMS) You Can Help Build

#php #opensource #programming

2 min read

krufuake

May 21

Sleeping while Selling: How I Automated My FunPay Store with a Python Bot (and You Can Too!)

#python #opensource #automation #telegram

3 min read

May 21

Puzzle — Create Modern Websites with a Hybrid PHP/JS, Visual, and Extensible Framework

#webdev #opensource #php #javascript

2 min read

Rohan

May 21

I Built Zigistry, a Package Registry for Zig with No Money (except $3 domain name)- Here's How

#webdev #zig #opensource #web3

3 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

May 21

How to Install OpenAlpha_Evolve: The Open Source Framework Inspired by AlphaEvolve

#gemini #ai #coding #opensource

5 min read

May 21

callsites usage in n8n source code to get callsites from the V8 stack trace API

#opensource #callstack #v8 #n8n

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

May 21

Java Resource Management and Leak Prevention: Insights from SeaTunnel Source Code

#java #programming #seatunnel #opensource

3 min read

Sharon

May 21

Is This the Best Free WAF in 2025?

#safeline #websecurity #opensource #waf

3 min read

Jigz for ZeroOpenSource™

May 21

🚀@zeroopensource/pack-packages v0.0.2 is live!

#opensource #npm #javascript #typescript

1 min read

Jigz for ZeroOpenSource™

May 21

🚀@zeroopensource/pack-packages v0.0.1 is live!

#opensource #npm #typescript #javascript

1 min read

May 20

Day 8: Let’s Get Greppy – Finding Text Like a Pro in RHEL 9

#linux #cloudwhistler #opensource #beginners

2 min read

May 20

Day 7 – “TOP Secret Info: Monitoring Your Linux System Like a Pro (Sorta)”

#linux #beginners #opensource #cloudwhistler

3 min read

Abhishek Singh Kushwaha

May 20

Cross-Platform Image Viewer on Steroids: SnapSort v1.0.0

#news #opensource #python #gui

2 min read

Thea for NanoAPI

May 21

Using NanoAPI on Game Mods

#csharp #modding #programming #opensource

3 min read

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