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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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Steven

May 13 '25

Building a Location-Based App with Appwrite

#programming #appwrite #react #opensource

6 min read

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May 13 '25

Model + Persona + Document: A Simple Framework for Local AI Workflows

#ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 2 '25

Unxus kernel: The kernel for developers

#opensource #programming

1 min read

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Pavel

Jun 2 '25

Synapse in Action: Graph-Based Programming in Rust (Part 2)

#programming #opensource #ai #rust

2 min read

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Mr Chike

Jun 2 '25

🔥 FastAPI in Production: Build, Scale & Deploy – Series A: Codebase Design

#discuss #fastapi #python #opensource

10 min read

Gittech

May 12 '25

30+ Github Repo For your Next Project | Gittech May 11, 2025

#webdev #programming #opensource #react

16 min read

Ronan Flynn-Curran for Fermyon

May 22 '25

Summer 2025 Internships at Fermyon

#internship #webassembly #opensource

1 min read

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May 4 '25

Introducing holo-fn: A Minimal Functional Library for TypeScript

#programming #opensource #typescript #functional

4 min read

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Madza

Jun 9 '25

9 Exciting Open Source Projects to Simplify Your Life as a Developer 👨‍💻👩‍💻

#opensource #github #development #productivity

6 min read

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Saurabh Mahawar

Jun 2 '25

Setting Up Presto with Apache Superset using Docker 🐳 : Hands-On Guide

#opensource #datascience #presto #dataengineering

3 min read

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Jun 1 '25

Why Ownership & Decentralization Matter in Web3

#web3 #blockchain #opensource #developers

2 min read

@codingsh

Jun 2 '25

Building the Future of Polkadot Development: Why PAPI Simulator's Community Templates Are Revolutionary

#polkadot #web3 #programming #opensource

6 min read

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May 30 '25

🤯Top 5 Open-Source Tools You Should Be Using🫵

#opensource #javascript #programming #productivity

7 min read

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Jun 2 '25

I built a side project with a friend — and it’s way better than working alone.

#showdev #webdev #opensource #startup

5 min read

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Jun 2 '25

From ZIP File to Folder Tree in Seconds – Introducing ZipTree

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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