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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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Chen Debra

Aug 20 '25

How to Batch Kill Running Workflows in Apache DolphinScheduler

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #bigdata #programming

3 min read

Calum

Jul 17 '25

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752741

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Aug 19 '25

Tech With Tim: Lovable FULL Tutorial - For COMPLETE Beginners (No Experience Needed)

#opensource

1 min read

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Aug 20 '25

Day 3 of Experimenting with Open Source AI

#ai #github #learning #opensource

4 min read

Aug 9 '25

I Was Tired of Building Invoices, So I Built a Full-Stack React Document Designer

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Aug 20 '25

Drop-in spinner for any Angular 17+ button (no CSS imports): ngxsmk-button-spinner

#angular #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Aug 20 '25

🚀 Introducing ngxsmk-stripe: A Modern Angular Stripe Plugin

#angular #stripe #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Judy

Aug 20 '25

Practice #6: Conditional Filtering by Enumerated Field--A Lightweight Solution to Speed up Queries by Dumping Data to Files

#discuss #programming #devops #opensource

4 min read

Calum

Jul 17 '25

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752720

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Siswoyo Siswoyo

Aug 19 '25

10 DEV.to Features Every Member Should Know

#devto #opensource #developers #programming

3 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 30 '25

Who Gave the Order? When AI Issues Commands Without a Speaker

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I Scraped 120 Years of Olympic History — and You Can Too

Santhosh

Aug 13 '25

I Scraped 120 Years of Olympic History — and You Can Too

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for GSoC Week 11: Nearing the Finish Line with CircuitVerse

Aug 18 '25

GSoC Week 11: Nearing the Finish Line with CircuitVerse

#gsoc #opensource #flutter #android

3 min read

ByteKnight

Jul 16 '25

Snowflake

#privacy #webrtc #security #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Developer Tooling #005

Aug 19 '25

Developer Tooling #005

#webdev #opensource #github #productivity

1 min read

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