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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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Sameer Ali

Jul 11 '25

Effortless Firestore Queries in React with React Query

#react #firebase #opensource #reactquery

2 min read

DASWU

Jul 11 '25

JuiceFS Community 1.3: Python SDK, Faster Backup, SQL & Windows Optimizations

#opensource

8 min read

Cover image for **"Stop Breaking Context: Smarter Text Chunking for Python NLP Projects"**

Aug 13 '25

"Stop Breaking Context: Smarter Text Chunking for Python NLP Projects"

#python #nlp #opensource #rag

2 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 11 '25

Think Your AI Understands You? It Already Started Responding

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

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Jul 15 '25

🚀 Meet OptiFolio: The Modern Dev Portfolio Template Built for YOU!

#webdev #opensource #11ty #portfolio

3 min read

OpenCSG

Aug 14 '25

Building the “Hybrid Huggingface+”: How OpenCSG Is Redefining the LLMOps & Agent Ecosystem

#ai #llmops #opensource #agenticops

4 min read

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Arun Krish

Aug 13 '25

Start Open Source Contributions Now!

#opensource #beginners #github #community

2 min read

TiLoKit

Aug 13 '25

Introducing TiLoKit 🚀 – a universal Golang CLI to scaffold projects across frameworks

#cli #opensource #softwaredevelopment #showcase

1 min read

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Oct 2 '25

🚀 I Built an Enterprise-Grade Data Table for Next.js - Now Available via Shadcn Registry!

#discuss #javascript #react #opensource

5 min read

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Aug 13 '25

The brink of new AI standard

#news #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

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Aug 13 '25

This Open Source Python Tool Replaces Your $2,000/Month Portfolio Tracker

#opensource #python #programming #ai

1 min read

Jul 10 '25

GSoC 2025 – Week 5: Hardware Integration on Tauri Begins!🔌

#opensource #circuitverse #gsoc2025

2 min read

Alexander Njoku

Jul 10 '25

https://medium.com/@alex2020global/filesystem-navigation-in-linux-aabaa87e8029

#discuss #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Giovanni Crisalfi

Aug 13 '25

Kaomel: a snappy kaomoji picker for Emacs

#emacs #opensource #programming #tooling

9 min read

Aug 13 '25

How to Contribute to Open Source as a Beginner

#opensource #beginners #github

3 min read

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