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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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Jul 23

10+ Free and Open Source n8n Workflow Automation Templates to Boost Your Productivity

#opensource #n8n #automation #productivity

4 min read

Jun 30

Your CRM is Holding Your Data Hostage. It's Time for a Jailbreak.

#crm #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Jun 30

Is Airtable Too Expensive? 5 Self-Hosted Alternatives Compared by Cost & Features

#opensource #lowcode #airtable #selfhosted

6 min read

Gerry Rasachocolate

Jun 30

Membangun Sistem Konten Digital yang Etis dan Tahan Uji di Era Informasi Cepat

#webdev #etikadigital #opensource #transformasidigital

3 min read

Mr Chike

Jul 23

🛠️ FastAPI in Production: Build, Scale & Deploy - Series B : Services, Queues & Containers

#fastapi #python #opensource #webdev

13 min read

Jul 13

Automate, Curate, Share: Building an Open Source Reading List

#discuss #opensource #productivity #learning

3 min read

Jun 30

Adding Animated Subtitles to Videos with Python

#showdev #python #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Andy

Jun 30

Simplify Your JSON Workflow with JSONFormatter.online

#webdev #json #opensource

2 min read

Justin Schroeder

Jul 22

Building Bod.Coach: LLM Lessons Learned The Hard Way.

#ai #webdev #opensource #programming

8 min read

Jun 29

MY LINUX BOOT & DRIVE ISSUES

#programming #linux #opensource #dualboot

2 min read

Aniket Raj

Jul 4

Project KARL

#ai #programming #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

Abijith B

Jun 29

Introducing Ogresync: Free, Open-Source Obsidian Sync Without the Subscription

#opensource #software #obsidian #productivity

6 min read

Jun 29

Native Machine Learning in Dart: `ml_knn` and `ml_logistic_regression` are Live on pub.dev!

#dart #flutter #opensource #pubdev

2 min read

Jun 29

🚀 Model Mondays S2E2: Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) – A Beginner-Friendly Guide

#opensource #mcp #microsoft #beginners

1 min read

Mr Vi

Jul 22

ConfWatch v3.0.0: Configuration File Monitoring with Secure Authentication

#devops #opensource #bash #linux

2 min read

Aldorax

Jun 29

My Trial by Fire: A Complete Chronicle of Setting Up OSO as a PLDG Cohort-3 Newcomer

#blockchain #web3 #linux #opensource

6 min read

Trix Cyrus

Jul 22

🚀 15+ Free & Powerful Tools Every Developer, Hacker, and Tech Enthusiast Should Bookmark in 2025 💻✨

#news #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

Beingana Jim Junior

Jul 22

Designing The Conveyor CI Pipeline Engine

#cicd #devops #opensource #cloudnative

8 min read

Jun 29

JSON0 - Speed Meets Simplicity

#java #opensource #stripe #programming

3 min read

Rostislav Dugin

Jul 22

How I got into open source in 2025 (with a PostgreSQL backup tool) after almost losing a ~$1,500/mo project in 2023

#webdev #opensource #postgres #programming

6 min read

ktny

Jun 29

I built a tool to visualize Claude Code activity like GitHub contributions

#cli #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

Jun 29

GSoC Week 4: RTL Madness, OAuth Adventures & Markdown Mayhem

#opensource #flutter #gsoc #learning

4 min read

Aniket Raj

Jul 3

Project KARL

#ai #programming #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

darfman

Jun 29

DARF: A Concept-First Blueprint for Android-Native Distributed Rendering

#opensource #android #blender #indiedev

2 min read

Nick Pap

Jul 25

Physics Scientific-Calculator

#opensource #cpp #science #programming

2 min read

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