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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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Oct 1 '25

From Pocket to Wallabag: A Self-Hosted Migration Story

#opensource #selfhosting #productivity #docker

3 min read

Oct 1 '25

Host Your Own TimeTracker on a Raspberry Pi in 10 Minutes

#webdev #programming #opensource #python

2 min read

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Sep 21 '25

The Hijacked Promise of Smart Manufacturing

#discuss #opensource #learning #news

6 min read

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Oct 1 '25

Why We'll Write Every Feature Atleast Twice

#development #go #opensource #react

4 min read

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PRAS Samin

Oct 5 '25

I made an open-source, ad-free content downloader that simply works

#showdev #privacy #opensource #tooling

1 min read

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Jayant Navrange

Oct 1 '25

Built a Reddit Memes & Jokes API with Node.js 🚀

#node #reddit #api #opensource

2 min read

Ella (she/her/elle) for Crawlee

Sep 30 '25

How we moved Crawlee for Python out of Beta

#python #webscraping #webcrawling #opensource

4 min read

Chen Debra

Aug 29 '25

Apache DolphinScheduler 3.3.1 is Released: More Stable, Faster, Safer!

#programming #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #lowcode

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Yousef

Oct 1 '25

Rhino Framework: The Real-Code Solution for MVP Development

#hacktoberfest #opensource #rails #ruby

6 min read

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Sep 29 '25

What are your goals for the week? #146 HacktoberFest is coming

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest #productivity

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 29 '25

AWS open source newsletter, #214

#opensource #aws

26 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 3 '25

Hacktoberfest Beginner-Friendly Repositories: Find and Contribute to Open Source Projects

#opensource #github #hacktoberfest

6 min read

ByteKnight

Aug 28 '25

🛡 CrowdSec: Open‑Source, Crowd‑Powered Defense

#opensource #security #multiplatform #cybersecurity

1 min read

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fmerian

Sep 29 '25

How Kilo Code launched on Product Hunt

#showdev #opensource #ai #startup

2 min read

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Aug 27 '25

A change in vision | Building Stocksimpy (Devlog 4)

#programming #python #opensource #learning

3 min read

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