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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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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

dejanualex

Oct 8 '25

Not All OSS Is Created Equal

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Harshal Rembhotkar

Oct 8 '25

SigNoz case study

#monitoring #devops #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Bewaker AI

Oct 7 '25

Building Cryptographic Guardrails for AI-Assisted Coding

#vscode #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

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Code Forge Temple

Nov 11 '25

🚀 How I built a small tool to track GitHub star growth over time

#github #analytics #android #opensource

2 min read

Unicorn Developer

Nov 12 '25

Code legacy: Analyzing Erlang's C and C++ modules that have been running for decades

#cpp #programming #erlang #opensource

21 min read

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Godfrey Omoregie

Oct 8 '25

Python Variables & Data Types Explained

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Nov 12 '25

Top 9 Lightstep (ServiceNow) Alternatives in 2025 (And How to Migrate)

#monitoring #opensource #tooling

12 min read

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Asoseil

Nov 9 '25

Building a cross-platform File Watcher in Go: What I learned from scratch

#go #opensource #tutorial #github

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Sergiy Yevtushenko

Oct 8 '25

Vibe Ensemble MCP Server

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Nov 11 '25

One Country, Two Internets: How Edge Computing Solves Brazil's Connectivity Crisis

#iot #opensource #braziliandevs

4 min read

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Oct 10 '25

How a 3-Day Hike on the Camino de Santiago Led Me to Build My Own Mapping Tool

#cli #node #kml #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 8 '25

Pictera.co — Generate clean Open Graph images for your links

#showdev #tooling #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Nov 10 '25

Man gets drunk, vibe codes AI Only forum.

#ai #python #opensource

8 min read

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Nov 9 '25

Building a Lightweight Camunda Monitoring Dashboard: From Enterprise Pain to Open Source Solution

#camunda #devops #monitoring #opensource

7 min read

Nikolaos Protopapas

Nov 9 '25

Terminal UI for .NET .resx Files Because Nothing Else Worked

#dotnet #linux #opensource #localization

6 min read

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