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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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Apr 27 '25

Arbitrum: Pioneering Open Source in Blockchain – A Deep Dive into Innovation and Community Impact

#arbitrum #opensource #blockchain

8 min read

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Apr 25 '25

Every Developer Needs to Self-Host

#cloud #devops #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Alex Enson

Apr 22 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 11)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

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Apr 22 '25

Feeling Lost but Still Learning: My Web Dev Journey So Far

#webdev #beginners #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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May 26 '25

How I Built a Secure, Scalable Auth System in Next.js 15 (with JWT, Edge Middleware, and Drizzle)

#nextjs #webdev #opensource #authjs

5 min read

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Jayjeo

May 26 '25

Obsidian-Milvus-FastMCP

#productivity #opensource #machinelearning #python

1 min read

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Joel Milligan for NanoAPI

May 26 '25

NanoAPI v1.0.9: Migration to Deno & Performance Boost 🚀

#opensource #deno #javascript #release

3 min read

Umar Jimoh

May 26 '25

🚀 Just launched: Laravel SecretSync — an easy way to sync secrets from Infisical into your Laravel apps easily.

#laravel #php #tooling #opensource

1 min read

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Pavel

May 26 '25

# 🚀 Из просто умного JSON в бронированный JSON на стероидах — встречайте WiseJSON

#javascript #database #node #opensource

1 min read

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Vin Cooper

May 26 '25

⚡ WebSockets 101: Real-Time Magic Explained 2.0

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

May 23 '25

Project of the Week: Grafana

#discuss #opensource #softwaredevelopment #programming

2 min read

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dmikhr

May 26 '25

A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Writing a Bash Installer Script for Your App

#opensource #cli #programming #bash

9 min read

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Pavel

May 26 '25

# 🚀 From Smart JSON to Armored JSON on Steroids — Introducing WiseJSON

#node #database #opensource #javascript

1 min read

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Jauhar

May 26 '25

Multi-Agent Systems for Legal Document Automation using CAMEL AI Framework

#ai #machinelearning #tutorial #opensource

12 min read

Second Me

Apr 22 '25

Second Me Now Supports MCP Protocol —— Your AI Identity Can Now Be Called Anywhere

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

2 min read

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