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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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MQY

Jul 25 '25

Meet Your New Coding Companion: Cat CPU Monitor for VS Code 🐱💻

#vscode #programming #opensource

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 25 '25

Your Money, Their Syntax: How LLMs Write Trust into Empty Crypto Promises

#discuss #ai #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

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Jul 29 '25

The case for static blogs: faster, safer, and easier to maintain

#webdev #javascript #opensource #jamstack

2 min read

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Aug 28 '25

The two-part routine that helps me code, write, and actually finish stuff

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

28 min read

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Aug 28 '25

Why “All-in-One” Productivity Tools Fail (and What Actually Works)

#discuss #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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MattQ

Aug 27 '25

How to learn physics easily: discover PhysicsHub.

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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siaikin

Jul 25 '25

Timered Counter: Add smooth animation to the clunky counter

#webcomponents #vue #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Aug 26 '25

Mapstronaut: A Flexible Object-Mapping Library for JS/TS

#opensource #javascript #datastructures #typescript

2 min read

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Jul 29 '25

Protecting Against Open Source Malicious Packages: What Does (Not) Work

#cybersecurity #opensource #devops

14 min read

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Aug 19 '25

🍔 The Ultimate Burger Builder

#beginners #frontend #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Jul 24 '25

Introducing Textrix – An Open-Source Medium.com-Style Editor for Publishing Platforms

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

1 min read

Abdullah Al-Hakimi

Jul 24 '25

🚀 [Open Source] SmoothMotion – Clean, Smooth Animations in Jetpack Compose

#kotlin #animation #jetpackcompose #opensource

1 min read

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subhadip pahari

Aug 27 '25

My new NPM package for cache 🚀

#node #npm #redis #opensource

2 min read

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Aug 27 '25

Microsoft is Open Sourcing Windows 11's UI Framework (WinUI 3) - Here's What Developers Need to Know

#microsoft #opensource #winui #development

4 min read

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Aug 27 '25

Why NGINX Still Powers the Modern Web in 2025: Part 1

#nginx #devops #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

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