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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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Sep 15

Maintaining Arch Linux AUR Packages: A Dual Update for Python-zconfig and Python-reparser

#python #archlinux #opensource #devjournal

2 min read

Sep 15

My journey with LEGATO ---dun dun dunnnnnnn

#kiro #opensource #ai #hackathon

11 min read

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Aug 13

OpenAI’s New Open Models

#openai #openmodels #ai #opensource

1 min read

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Jessica Temporal

Sep 15

Preptember 2025 week 2: GitFichas now supports multi-language

#hacktoberfest #ai #opensource #git

4 min read

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Sep 16

Hacktoberfest 2025 SWAG IS BACK!!

#hacktoberfest #hactoberfest2025 #programming #opensource

1 min read

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Sep 15

How We Reimagined SQL Query Building to Be Smarter, Safer, and Simpler (Introducing `mysql2-dx` v1.1.0)

#node #mysql #typescript #opensource

3 min read

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Denis

Sep 15

Emoji php - emoticons in your project

#programming #webdev #php #opensource

4 min read

Aug 12

How to check if the browser is Safari programmatically?

#safari #navigator #useragent #opensource

2 min read

Aug 12

Capture HTML elements to images using snapDOM.

#snapdom #opensource #node #capture

2 min read

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Peter H. Boling

Sep 13

👩‍🔧 How to Check License Compatibility in GHA

#programming #opensource #githubactions #howto

6 min read

Aug 12

A tool to quickly display animations

#animation #drawin #opensource #github

2 min read

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Aug 13

The current MCP ecosystem for enterprises

#mcp #llm #opensource

5 min read

Sep 15

How I Built TxLens with Kiro: From Manual HIV Reports to an Automated Web App

#kiro #hackathon #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Aug 12

Common Environment Variables in SafeLine WAF

#opensource #waf #firewall #container

1 min read

Sep 14

secure-pubsub-bridge: End-to-End RSA Encryption for Google Cloud Pub/Sub

#googlecloud #node #opensource #security

2 min read

Aleksei Aleinikov

Aug 12

🔍 End-to-End Observability 2025 — Trace Every Millisecond, Fix Issues Fast! 🔍

#devops #data #go #opensource

1 min read

Sep 14

Complete Utility App — The Multi-Tool Desktop Madness I Dropped (And Forgot About)

#python #software #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Sep 14

How I Built a Full-Stack Productivity Tool for Notion using Kiro

#kiro #productivity #programming #opensource

4 min read

Sep 14

mermaid-isomorphic in mcp-mermaid codebase.

#isomorphic #opensource #mermaid #mcp

2 min read

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Sep 14

Referenceable: Generate Unique Laravel Model References the

#laravel #php #opensource

2 min read

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Aug 11

Trying out the Openai new open-source models

#programming #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

King coder

Sep 14

How to Build and Run Open Source AI Models Locally and Integrate Them into Your MERN Stack App

#ai #javascript #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Sep 13

🎉 YINI Parser v1.2.0-beta Released

#showdev #node #opensource #typescript

2 min read

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Sep 11

Introducing SnippetShot – A VS Code Extension for Clean Code Screenshots

#webdev #vscode #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 13

This Free App Finally Makes Running Windows Apps on Linux Actually Easy

#linux #opensource #windows #compatibility

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