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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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Jon Reeve

Sep 26 '25

New OSS tool: Gonzo + Vercel Logs Live Tailing

#vercel #opensource #tui #monitoring

1 min read

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Kushagra Srivastava

Sep 15 '25

My Google Summer of Code Journey: Part 1

#programming #webdev #opensource #softwaredevelopment

4 min read

Cristian Cardoso

Sep 26 '25

Configurando MPLS no OpenBSD com circuito VPLS

#networking #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Sep 26 '25

How AI Agents Unlock New Integration Paradigms Beyond Traditional APIs

#api #opensource #ai #agents

4 min read

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T2C for tsquaredc

Sep 26 '25

Model Context Protocol (MCP): What Developers Need to Know

#opensource #tooling #api #ai

2 min read

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Sep 26 '25

⚡Here Are 5 GitHub Projects Too Cool to Miss

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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marcosomma

Sep 25 '25

🧠Building AI Beyond the Hype

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deeplearning

3 min read

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OmkarBhede

Sep 26 '25

Keep Your Immich Server Up-to-Date 🚀

#bash #docker #opensource #automation

2 min read

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Sep 24 '25

🚀 Bytedocs: A Modern Alternative to Swagger

#api #documentation #ai #opensource

2 min read

Judy

Sep 26 '25

Employees who have accumulated more than 5 years of work experience in New York--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #spl

2 min read

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Donnie Brown for OWASP BLT

Sep 26 '25

Enhancing Open-Source Security & Education with AI and Gamification — OWASP BLT GSoC 2025 Highlights

#github #opensource #ai #security

2 min read

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Sep 25 '25

Shadcn Studio - An Open Source Shadcn/ui Library is Here 🚀

#webdev #shadcn #opensource #webcomponents

4 min read

panfan

Sep 25 '25

Kit — A Privacy-First, Cross-Platform Toolbox with 70+ Utilities

#showdev #privacy #opensource #tooling

3 min read

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Simmypeet

Sep 23 '25

Building a Query-Based Incremental Compilation Engine in Rust

#rust #opensource #architecture #tutorial

10 min read

Sep 4 '25

CPK: A Philosophical Practice of Returning to the Essence of Software Packaging and Distribution

#linux #opensource #devops #programming

9 min read

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