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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.

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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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Jul 21 '25

CodeTxt: The Open-Source Tool That Lets AI Fully Understand Your Codebase

#programming #javascript #ai #opensource

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marcosomma

Jul 24 '25

🧠 When a System Notices Itself

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #agentaichallenge

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NocoBase

Jun 17 '25

A No-Code Journey Inside SHIMANO

#nocode #opensource #nocobase #lowcode

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Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 21 '25

Modul Perulangan Dalam Bahasa Earl

#programming #beginners #tutorial #opensource

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Instancian

Jul 24 '25

I’m a .NET Developer, and I Want to Be Free from Frameworks.

#dotnet #webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 21 '25

Your Backend Isn’t Broken — It’s Blind

#opensource #java #programming #beginners

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Tanish Raj

Jul 20 '25

I Tried Making HTML Dynamic (Without Frameworks) — Here’s What Happened ⚡

#webdev #opensource #go #sideprojects

4 min read

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Arma Sahar

Jul 24 '25

I Built an IEEE-754 Binary Calculator - Try My Open Source Binary Converter

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

codeporn

Jun 30 '25

Why Smart New Developers Are Skipping the Build Step: The Juris Advantage

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

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Felix Schneider

Jul 9 '25

Accelerating translations with continuous integration

#ai #opensource #github #documentation

2 min read

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Juan Manuel Barea Martínez

Jun 16 '25

The Open Source Beginner Contributor Guide

#opensource #codenewbie #community #career

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Sherin Joseph Roy

Jul 20 '25

I Built an AI-Powered API Mocking Tool That's Already Downloaded 3000+ Times - Here's What Makes It Viral

#api #development #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jun 16 '25

Assessing Security Risks of Open Source Repos

#security #opensource

2 min read

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Mohammad Anzawi

Jun 15 '25

Choosing the Right Workflow Engine for Business Approval Systems

#workfkow #programming #csharp #opensource

3 min read

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Yuri for Supabase

Jul 18 '25

Storage: 10x Larger Uploads, 3x Cheaper Cached Egress, and 2x Egress Quota

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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