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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 16

Making Nike Run Club Searchable

#running #webdev #sideprojects #opensource

2 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Sep 16

Here's How To Build Fullstack Agent Apps (Gemini, CopilotKit & LangGraph)

#programming #webdev #opensource #ai

19 min read

Sep 16

From Zero to CRUD - A Tiny Spring Boot H2 Boilerplate You’ll Actually Use

#springboot #boilerplate #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Sep 16

Spec Driven Development (SDD) - A initial review

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

13 min read

Sep 16

CVE-2024-29415: problem solution

#node #javascript #opensource #npm

3 min read

sailorfe

Sep 16

I Stumbled Into Documentation-Driven Development

#documentation #testing #ux #opensource

6 min read

Sep 16

## 🧅 Inside Tor: A Simplified Look at Its Architecture and Code Organization

#architecture #networking #opensource #security

3 min read

Sep 16

Deploy a Secure Containerised WebDAV Server with Docker in Minutes

#docker #devops #selfhosted #opensource

2 min read

Sebastian Schürmann

Sep 16

Building a CLI for the Ecosyste.ms API

#opensource #security #supplychain

3 min read

Sep 16

CLI based Youtube video downloader written in python with advanced features — Need contributors and feedback

#tooling #python #opensource #cli

1 min read

Sep 16

Stop Searching, Start Coding: Find Your Perfect Hacktoberfest Issue in Minutes

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfestchallenge #github #opensource

2 min read

Panche Isajeski

Sep 16

Building Digital Identity Tools - Why We Open-Sourced Our SSI SDK

#opensource #javascript #identity #programming

3 min read

本性

Sep 16

The "0 Hook" Android Architecture Your Team Has Been Dreaming Of (Especially for Jetpack Compose)

#android #kotlin #pluginframework #opensource

19 min read

Timon Vonk

Sep 16

Announcing Swiftide 0.31

#programming #ai #rust #opensource

1 min read

Sep 15

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

#python #archlinux #opensource #devjournal

2 min read

paulboguta

Sep 16

10 Best Open Source Cursor Alternatives in 2025

#webdev #opensource #ai

4 min read

Sep 15

My journey with LEGATO ---dun dun dunnnnnnn

#kiro #opensource #ai #hackathon

11 min read

PikaPods

Sep 16

Introducing PikaPods: Your Open-Source Hosting Platform

#opensource #pikapods #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Sep 14

How to Get Selected for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) - My Personal Experience at Accord Project

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #opensource

5 min read

Kushagra Srivastava

Sep 16

My Google Summer of Code Journey: Part 2

#programming #kernel #freebsd #opensource

5 min read

Sep 16

Publishing to PyPI: My ML Preprocessing Package for Newbies

#machinelearning #python #opensource #datascience

3 min read

ByteKnight

Sep 15

🧅 Oniux: Tor Routing for Linux

#opensource #cybersecurity #tor

1 min read

Altinity

Sep 16

Understanding Detached Parts in ClickHouse®

#devops #opensource #clickhouse #troubleshooting

11 min read

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

terryncew

Sep 16

Open Line Protocol — a geometry-first wire for AI agents (MIT)

#opensource #ai #agents #protocol

1 min read

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