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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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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 25

I replaced Next.js for my application with this module 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

May 25

How To Leverage Open Source Tools as an Indie Developer

#webdev #docker #programming #opensource

4 min read

Aniket Raj

May 25

Project KARL - AI

#ai #programming #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

May 25

DocWire SDK 2025.05.22 Released – A Big Leap for PDF, OCR, and Core Architecture

#news #cpp #opensource #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

May 25

i just relased my first pypi package

#python #flask #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

May 25

🔥 Stop Leaking Data: Instantly Encrypt Your API Calls with secure-fetch-sdk

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

May 25

A2A and MCP Combined Implementation

#a2a #mcp #llm #opensource

8 min read

Jigz

May 25

🚀@zeroopensource/zero-official v0.0.1 is live!

#opensource #npm #javascript #typescript

1 min read

GitHubOpenSource

May 25

ByteSync: Revolutionizing File Synchronization with Speed and Security

#file #endtoend #opensource #multidevice

3 min read

May 25

call, apply, and bind in JavaScript — Explained with Simple Examples

#discuss #javascript #100daysofcode #opensource

2 min read

Prince

May 25

Web3 and Blockchain Projects

#web3 #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Coder Acco

May 25

I created an code search web app made in Flask called Codel.

#discuss #web #github #opensource

1 min read

Mouhamed Wassim Mbarek

May 25

🛡️ Stop Face Spoofing! EasyShield AI: 92% Accuracy optimized for Edge Devices

#ai #security #opensource #python

1 min read

May 25

Auto Tag on Package Version Change - GitHub Action

#github #githubactions #opensource #cicd

1 min read

May 23

10 VS Code Extensions To Become The Ultimate Developer🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

May 25

Building Ledger the right way

#fintech #opensource #learning #aws

3 min read

Phoenix Storm Jr.

May 24

Ultra Fast Colab I Just Deleted Pip from a Colab Notebook, and IT STILL WORKED!

#notebook #python #opensource #github

1 min read

devops methodology

May 24

MERN App Deployed on Kubernetes | 3 TIER WEB APPLICATION via Kubeadm

#devops #mern #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

May 24

Introducing SecureSessionVault for .NET – Secure, Simple, Session Management

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Pierre-Clément Kerneis

May 24

We Need a Spec Format for Design, QA, and Documentation

#testing #frontend #ux #opensource

3 min read

May 24

Introducing AI Shahab: A Free Persian AI Chatbot with the New "cas" Language Model

#showdev #ai #opensource #discuss

1 min read

May 24

Developing a High Frequency Trading Software

#programming #beginners #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

May 24

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

James Derek Ingersoll for GodsIMiJ AI Solutions

May 23

LocoLama – Local AI Chat Terminal Using Ollama + Next.js (DROP002)

#ai #opensource #github #ollama

2 min read

Bridge Group Solutions

May 24

Open-Source Software's Effect on Contemporary Development

#opensource #software #development #effects

4 min read

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