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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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Jeeva Madhaiyan

Sep 6 '25

ReUniteME – Using MERN to Help Families Reconnect with Missing Persons

#webdev #opensource #socialimpact #javascript

2 min read

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[AutoBE Hackathon] AI Chatbot generating Backend Application with AI Compilers ($6,400 Prize Pool)

#hackathon #typescript #opensource #ai

6 min read

Sep 6 '25

Introducing node-hooker: WordPress Hooks for Your Node.js App

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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NocoBase

Aug 8 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

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marcosomma

Sep 5 '25

🧠From 77% to 92%: How Orka-Reasoning Turns GPT-oss:20B Into a Math Reasoning Powerhouse

#ai #promptengineering #opensource #openai

3 min read

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Denis

Sep 6 '25

Misha - console SSH client

#go #opensource #ssh #cli

2 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 7: Best Practices for Production

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 6: Developer Control and Partitioning Strategies

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 5: Monitoring, Observability, and Health Checks

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Anuj Dubey

Aug 3 '25

🚀 Just Shipped: Client Portal for V1‑ERP

#buildinpublic #webdev #erp #opensource

1 min read

Alex

Sep 17 '25

JT-Trader: A Complete Overview of the Cryptocurrency Algorithmic Trading Platform

#webdev #opensource #typescript #programming

4 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination – Part 3: Fault Tolerance and Node Recovery

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 2: How Database-Backed Partitioning Works

#springbatch #java #cloudnative #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 5 '25

Introducing Codepit: A Minimal Platform to Share Code Snippets

#nextjs #opensource #productivity #webdev

1 min read

daniele pelleri

Sep 3 '25

I Open-Sourced My Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework (94% Lower API Costs)

#ai #opensource #webdev #openai

3 min read

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