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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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Aug 16 '25

Writing Once, Publishing Everywhere

#writing #opensource #sideprojects #productivity

2 min read

Aug 15 '25

Meet Termix — Beautiful Terminal based file navigator

#dotent #cli #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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Jul 12 '25

Introducing AGAI

#go #webdev #opensource #programming

2 min read

Flo Kiyf

Jul 13 '25

Building an AI-Powered Gmail Assistant with TypeScript

#typescript #ai #opensource #openai

1 min read

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Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Aug 15 '25

Project of the Week: Chart.js

#discuss #opensource #github #javascript

2 min read

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Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jul 12 '25

How to Install Devstral Small 1.1 Locally?

#devstral #opensource #mistral #ai

11 min read

Aug 15 '25

Migration from Pocket and Hatena Bookmark to Raindrop.io (and Creating helm-raindrop.el)

#productivity #opensource #emacs #emacslisp

4 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Jul 12 '25

Hanko: The Open-Source Authentication Revolution You Need to See!

#authentication #user #opensource #web

3 min read

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Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jul 12 '25

Building an AI-Powered Chest X-ray Analyzer with MedGemma 27B and Gradio

#medgemma27b #opensource #ai #llm

16 min read

Aug 15 '25

Understanding Databases: A Comprehensive Guide to Types and Use Cases day 29 of system design basics

#programming #webdev #opensource #ai

4 min read

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Jul 12 '25

Getting Started with Linux: A Beginner's Guide to Basic Commands

#linux #opensource #webdev #beginners

4 min read

Aug 4 '25

How to find projects that are easy to contribute to?

#opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 12 '25

Protocol Without Prognosis: When Syntax Commands in Clinical AI

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Siddhesh

Aug 15 '25

Introducing NeuroVerse Beta‑3 — Modular, Private AI Assistant for Android

#programming #opensource #android #mobile

2 min read

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Ismoy Belizaire

Aug 20 '25

Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose: Unified Camera & Gallery Picker with Expect/Actual and Permission Handling

#opensource #kotlin #android #ios

3 min read

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