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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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Dec 2 '25

Migrate your WordPress blog to Sanity in an afternoon (open-source tool)

#wordpress #sanity #opensource #github

5 min read

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Polliog

Dec 3 '25

Building a Sigma Rule Engine in TypeScript: Detection-as-Code for Log Analysis

#security #typescript #devops #opensource

4 min read

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Dec 2 '25

Exploring native Browser/Web APIs

#webdev #javascript #opensource #api

1 min read

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Nov 27 '25

What Is HATEOAS? A Complete Guide + Build Your Own App Using Hypermedia 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

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Remy Choi

Dec 1 '25

Reflections on the Djangonaut Space Journey 🦄

#django #djangonaut #opensource

4 min read

Nov 2 '25

Publishing My First Vagrant Plugin - v0.2.0 Goes Live

#vagrant #wsl2 #rubygems #opensource

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Hitesh Sachdeva

Oct 31 '25

Hacktoberfest Week 4 – Improving DataMapper Logic in Kaoto

#analytics #programming #opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Hitesh Sachdeva

Oct 28 '25

Fixing Playbook Update Drawer Title in OpenCTI

#opensource #hacktoberfest #frontend #programming

3 min read

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Dec 2 '25

How I Automated a Full GitLab Migration Using Bash (Real Case Study + Scripts)

#gitlab #bash #opensource #linux

2 min read

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Dec 2 '25

I Built an Open-Source Kubernetes Dashboard - Here's What I Learned

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #python

1 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Sagnik Chakraborty

Oct 28 '25

From Maintainer to Contributor - Building, Collaborating, and Reflecting this Hacktoberfest 🌿

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

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Oct 29 '25

Stop Writing Docs. Let Vezlo Build and Chat with Them.

#webdev #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Nov 12 '25

Introducing Laravel Asset Cleaner: Safely Remove Unused Assets from Your Laravel Projects

#laravel #php #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Oct 30 '25

Kubernetes-Style Scan Scheduling Comes to Security Tools (JMo Security v0.8.0)

#cybersecurity #devops #gitlab #opensource

6 min read

Oct 30 '25

Dev.to + Gitlab >>> GitHub

#opensource #programming #privacy

1 min read

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