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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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Jan 3

🗺️ Mapas modernos em React

#reactjsdevelopment #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

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Nov 29 '25

Best Open-Source Business Software powered by PHP

#php #opensource #software

8 min read

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Dec 31 '25

I’m turning my GitHub Contribution Graph into a playable screen for DOOM. Am I insane?

#showdev #github #opensource #doom

2 min read

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Nov 29 '25

Introducing SAGEWORKS AI A Temporal & Network-Native Framework for Next-Generation Computational Systems

#ai #opensource #architecture #webdev

3 min read

Jan 3

I have open-sourced a WebGL front-end for your terminal that emulates a CRT monitor

#webdev #webgl #opensource #threejs

2 min read

Daniel Azevedo Novais

Jan 2

Building a Resilient Edge Architecture for Remote Farms with Starlink + LoRa

#iot #python #opensource #agriculture

1 min read

Jan 2

My First Flow with Kestra.io

#orchestration #automation #opensource #gettingstarted

6 min read

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Nov 30 '25

check my HTML,CSS,JS playground

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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shiey

Jan 2

Building a Real-Time Collaborative Notepad with Socket.IO and MongoDB

#javascript #node #socketio #opensource

3 min read

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MABD

Dec 22 '25

I Built a Tool to Track My Open Source Contributions

#opensource #github #programming

5 min read

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Jan 3

Top Open Source Projects That Will Dominate 2026

#opensource #programming #javascript #ai

4 min read

Jan 2

How I Built a Zero-Config CLI That Generates READMEs in 60 Seconds

#opensource #python #productivity #cli

2 min read

deltax

Jan 2

If AI Doesn’t Improve Anything, It Should Stop Talking

#ai #governance #safety #opensource

1 min read

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Jan 2

Docker Network Commands

#devops #docker #opensource #development

8 min read

Eliana Lam

Nov 29 '25

Run OSS LLMs on a Single H100 Smarter, Cheaper, Faster

#llm #ai #opensource #aws

5 min read

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