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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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Code Block

May 28

Need contribution

#github #java #socket #opensource

1 min read

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Giorgi Khachidze

May 28

Made KLIPY GitHub Repo Public, But Google Still Can’t Find It?

#discuss #github #seo #opensource

1 min read

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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Jun 29

📢 HMPL-DOM v0.0.1 Released: Write Reactive HTML Without JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

May 28

A Simple Fix for SeaTunnel Excel Failing to Convert Numeric Types to Strings | With Source Code Packaging

#apacheseatunnel #dataengineering #opensource #programming

3 min read

Jul 1

Tried Deepsite v2 Yet?

#deepseek #deepsite #opensource

1 min read

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Leeanna Marshall

May 28

Struggling with UI Bugs After Every Release? Try Visual Regression Testing

#webdev #opensource #testing #devops

5 min read

Jun 20

`wrapOpenAIClientError` function in libs/langchain-openai source code.

#opensource #langchain #openai #javascript

2 min read

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Jul 1

🔍 Navigating GitHub Branches: A Beginner-Friendly Guide

#github #git #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jul 1

Snapdom: a modern and faster alternative to html2canvas

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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Jayant Navrange

Jul 1

Wallpy: A Wallpaper Changer for Linux Desktops 🌄

#linux #opensource #python #productivity

2 min read

Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 1

Seeking Contributors for PoC Development of My Concepts

#opensource #ai #cybersecurity #developer

1 min read

Abubaker Siddique

Jun 1

⚙️ 10 More Fast-Build AI Database Ideas to Dominate a Niche (and Monetize Like a Pro)

#startup #chatgpt #opensource #react

3 min read

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Gabriel Coelho Soares

Jun 16

🚀 De Estudante a Tech Lead: Como Liderei 9 Desenvolvedores em um Projeto Full-Stack Real

#java #opensource #devjournal #programming

3 min read

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Jun 30

MovieMonk: An AI-Powered Movie Recommendation App Using MindsDB Knowledge Base + Agent

#mindsdb #database #knowledgebase #opensource

2 min read

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Alan Buenrostro

May 27

Building a Smart Vue 3 Cart Manager Composable 🛒

#webdev #javascript #vue #opensource

4 min read

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Sevaki Rajasekar

Jun 30

VS Code vs VSCodium

#opensource #idk #programming

2 min read

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Elanat Framework

Jun 30

CodeBehind Turns Two Years Old

#news #webdev #csharp #opensource

7 min read

Zyntraxis

May 27

🚀 Zyn v2.3.0 is out now!

#cpp #developer #opensource #zyn

1 min read

Emily

Jun 30

Is There Room for Growth in Open-Source CMDB Discovery Tools?

#news #opensource #learning #cmdb

6 min read

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divyanshu_Kumar

Jun 29

GSoC Progress (Weeks 1–4) at MIT App Inventor — Building a Responsive GWT Interface

#java #gwt #opensource #gsoc

5 min read

Magic.rb

May 31

How My Weekend Project Went Viral on Hacker News

#opensource #programming #webdev #javascript

3 min read

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Aero

Jun 28

It's 2025 - Why Is Offline File Sharing Still So Broken?

#discuss #privacy #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 19

Tutorial Dasar Earl: Menggunakan atur dan ambil

#programming #beginners #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

toxi360

May 26

I developed a todo GUI using only C and the Win32 API. I'm open to suggestions and contributions.

#c #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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Abdul Rehman Khan

Jun 29

Top 10 Free AI Coding Assistants Developers Should Try in 2025

#ai #programming #opensource #devtools

3 min read

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