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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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kihuni

Dec 22 '25

My Journey Contributing to Django: From Intimidation to a Merged Ticket 🚀

#django #djangonauts #opensource #programming

3 min read

Nov 19 '25

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#umami #analysis #opensource #projectstructure

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Advent of AI 2025 - Day 14: Agent Skills

#adventofai #ai #opensource #goose

5 min read

fsiovn

Nov 22 '25

VSCode Autocomplete extension

#vscode #ai #autocomplete #opensource

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Dec 10 '25

I built a Laravel package to stop silent cron failures

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

2 min read

freerave

Dec 20 '25

How I Refactored My VS Code Extension to be 100% Serverless & Offline 🚀 (CodeTune v0.0.7)

#vscode #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Dec 22 '25

ANNOUNCING Telegem V1.0.0 - The modern Telegram Bot Framework for ruby

#opensource #api #ruby

1 min read

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Emmanuel Victor

Nov 17 '25

Smart_Store Schema Guide: Future-Proofing Your Data with Versioning

#career #architecture #opensource #cpp

2 min read

Dec 20 '25

Building a Real-time VPN Monitoring System from Tokyo with Google Apps Script

#vpn #googleappsscript #opensource #javascript

7 min read

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Rolan Lobo

Nov 19 '25

I Made a File That's Also Another File (And Your Mind is About to Break) 🤯

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #security

6 min read

Genix

Dec 20 '25

PSX: The Project Structure Checker

#opensource #programming #career #go

5 min read

Dec 21 '25

BookHunter — Open-Source CLI Tool for Downloading and Managing eBooks

#cli #opensource #books #automation

2 min read

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Apache Dev Mail Digest: Iceberg & Polaris (Nov 12–17, 2025)

#architecture #dataengineering #opensource

4 min read

Dec 21 '25

File Browser — Open-Source Web File Manager You Can Self-Host

#devops #web #opensource #security

2 min read

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NocoBase

Dec 21 '25

Top 10 Open-source AI CRM Projects with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #nocode #ai #crm

10 min read

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