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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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Jamal

Oct 31 '25

I Built a JSON-to-Vue Form Generator Using Naive UI — Here’s How It Works

#vue #javascript #opensource #frontend

2 min read

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Nov 29 '25

I Built a 2KB React Alternative That Uses Zero Custom Syntax

#javascript #react #opensource #html

6 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Oni

Oct 31 '25

Brutal Truths from 7 Years of Hacktoberfest – How to Make It Worth Your Time

#opensource #hacktoberfest #reflections #careeradvice

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Aubrey D

Oct 31 '25

Hacktoberfest PR: Cleaning Up Code

#hacktoberfest #python #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

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Dec 5 '25

How I Built a Client-Side Audio Toolkit (No Server Uploads)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #music

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 31 '25

First contribution in hacktoberfest

#opensource #hacktoberfest #release0dot2 #programming

1 min read

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Polliog

Dec 4 '25

How we tripled User Activation with an Interactive Tutorial (Svelte 5 Case Study)

#svelte #ux #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 1 '25

Experiences in Hacktoberfest 2025

#opensource #hacktoberfest #release0dot2 #osd600

1 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Hirushi Nethmini

Oct 30 '25

Learning Through Contribution - Hacktoberfest 2025🎯

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

2 min read

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Danilo Poccia for AWS

Dec 4 '25

Strands Agents now speaks TypeScript: A side-by-side guide

#opensource #ai #typescript #python

7 min read

Dec 4 '25

Checking osu! and exploring features of static analyzers

#gamedev #csharp #dotnet #opensource

11 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Shiwans Kumar Yadav

Oct 31 '25

The October That Changed My Coding Journey — Hacktoberfest 2025 Story

#hacktoberfest #opensource #hacktoberfest2025

2 min read

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Emir Taner

Dec 4 '25

How Businesses Are Quietly Becoming Crypto-Native (And Why It’s Happening Faster Than You Think)

#blockchain #web3 #career #opensource

2 min read

Sean K

Dec 5 '25

Getting a NO from an open source maintainer

#ai #opensource

1 min read

Oct 31 '25

Open Source Contribution: CLI Project with LLM

#opensource #cli #llm #release0dot2

2 min read

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