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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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Navidreza Abbaszadeh

Oct 24 '25

This Week’s Achievements at FA (FrontAdvanced)

#opensource #frontend #systemdesign #webdev

1 min read

kohei “koheyy123” uechi

Oct 24 '25

You can check it out S3-bucket-size anytime.

#s3 #opensource

1 min read

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Derek Chen

Nov 26 '25

UT Registration Plus: An Overview

#college #campus #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Nov 6 '25

Comparison on Six Self-Hosted WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource #testing

4 min read

Oct 23 '25

Automating API Testing with Open Source Testing Tools: Best Practices and Tips

#opensource #testingtools #devops #softwaretest

4 min read

Chen Debra

Oct 23 '25

Unlocking Seamless & Secure Access: Introducing Generalized OIDC Authentication in Apache DolphinScheduler

#architecture #opensource #security

7 min read

Mohammad Raziei

Nov 6 '25

pygixml — The Fastest XML Parser for Python (Beating lxml at Its Own Game)

#xml #python #opensource #performance

3 min read

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Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Oct 28 '25

Eligify — The Criteria and Rule Engine for Explainable Decisions

#laravel #opensource

3 min read

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Nov 6 '25

Unlocking Salesforce CRM Intelligence with MindsDB’s AI Powered Knowledge Bases

#ai #sql #datascience #opensource

14 min read

Felipe Mattioli

Oct 23 '25

Improving Azure Service Bus Development with AsbFlow

#opensource #dotnet #architecture #azureservicebus

4 min read

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Nov 25 '25

Santa Came Early: I Just Published a Rust Crate and CLI Tool to Take Care of AI Markdown Citations for Good

#rust #markdown #ai #opensource

10 min read

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Nov 26 '25

How I gave my AI Agent long-term memory (without the vector DB headache)

#javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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Nov 13 '25

My First Open Source journey

#opensource #gssoc #gsoc #career

3 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

MD ARIFUL HAQUE

Oct 23 '25

Open Source Reflections – Hacktoberfest 2025

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

alott2223

Oct 28 '25

cyber container platform

#webdev #docker #programming #opensource

1 min read

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