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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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Sopaco

Oct 8

Open Source Project Commercial Benchmarking: Technical Solution Comparison Between Litho and DeepWiki

#architecture #ai #rust #opensource

6 min read

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Oct 6

Policy as Code, Everywhere: How Casbin Makes Authorization Simple, Powerful, and Portable

#opensource #tooling #architecture #security

5 min read

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Oct 6

My Journey with Pipecat + Attendee (And Hacking the Infrastructure)

#ai #architecture #opensource #learning

5 min read

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momina raheel (Moona)

Oct 7

Day 25 of 90 day python series..

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Oct 7

`promisifiedDataFetch` function in Meshery codebase.

#opensource #cloud #meshery #javascript

3 min read

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shieldx

Oct 6

ShieldX - A Vietnamese developer's dream to make enterprise security accessible

#opensource #security #ai

2 min read

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RimStone

Oct 7

RimStone

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Aman Kumar

Oct 6

Best Practices for Public npm Packages: Lock Files, Publishing & Dependency Management

#npm #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

cutieyunny-tech

Oct 6

University Threshold

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Havilah Academy

Oct 6

📢 Call for Judges

#opensource #hackathon #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

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fraSma

Oct 8

Create Express Auth — A Clean Architecture Boilerplate for Modern APIs

#express #typescript #architecture #opensource

5 min read

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momina raheel (Moona)

Oct 6

Day 24 of My 90 Days Python Series – Word Counter Tool

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Oct 6

RTK query usage in Meshery codebase.

#opensource #cloud #redux #rtkquery

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

cutieyunny-tech

Oct 6

The Extended Universe of University Threshold: Lumu & The Dragon

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Madhumitha Ganesan

Oct 6

ACID Properties with SQL Transactions in DBMS

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

cutieyunny-tech

Oct 6

University Threshold

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Vinoj

Oct 6

Launching this month

#ai #devops #opensource #git

1 min read

Shantanu

Oct 6

.NET WebRTC

#webdev #programming #opensource #dotnet

1 min read

chahuadev

Oct 7

Tired of Juggling Multiple Projects? I Built a Framework to Automate It All.

#javascript #programming #opensource #node

3 min read

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Amedeo

Oct 8

🔎 Seraphix: The Secret Scanner Toolkit Built for Speed, Scale, and Bug Bounties

#programming #security #opensource #github

3 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Jessica Temporal

Oct 6

Field Notes: Hacktoberfest 2025, Week 1

#hacktoberfest #git #opensource #beginners

2 min read

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Jefferson Otoni Lima

Oct 4

Quick Framework e algumas Melhorias de Performance

#backend #opensource #performance #go

6 min read

Syed Ali

Oct 4

Threat Intelligence Feeds Are Broken — And We’re Fixing the Trust Problem No One Talks About

#threatintelligence #cybersecurity #opensource #blockchain

3 min read

AskPaul

Oct 8

Building a Prediction Market App with MiroFlow: A Technical Deep Dive

#ai #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Oct 4

Why GitHub to AI Ingester Exists: The Repository Verification Gap

#github #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

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