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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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Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 1

Liam ERD: Reinventing Database Visualization

#erd #liamerd #database #opensource

6 min read

tomasossa

Apr 24

Modeling Valid Domain Objects in TypeScript with self-assert

#opensource #webdev #oop #javascript

2 min read

Mani Shankar Tulabandu

Mar 31

I Built a Job Tracker to Solve a Pain We've All Felt

#showdev #opensource #productivity #discuss

1 min read

Mar 31

Why I Built USPL: Helping GPT Understand Multi-Table SQL

#chatgpt #llm #sql #opensource

2 min read

Miki Makhlevich

Apr 22

The Very First MCP Generator to Support Auth!

#mcp #python #fastapi #opensource

2 min read

Apr 23

Why Keycloak is the Best Choice for Authentication in Modern Applications

#webdev #programming #microservices #opensource

3 min read

Alireza Shabani

Apr 13

Journey to GNOME Circle: Community, App Ideas, and Getting Started

#gnome #opensource #programming #beginners

5 min read

Michael Interface

Mar 31

How to Use Pytest for Exception Testing: Insights from Open Source Projects

#python #opensource #programming #testing

5 min read

Prakash Chandra Muduli

Apr 1

Introducing Humbble – The Open-Source Alternative to Bumble!

#opensource #reactnative #typescript #mobile

2 min read

DevByJ

Apr 22

A list of software alternative lists

#software #opensource

1 min read

Apr 22

Simplify Many-to-Many Relationships in Yii2 with yii2-m2m-behavior

#php #yii2 #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Apr 22

Feeling Lost but Still Learning: My Web Dev Journey So Far

#webdev #beginners #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 21

What We Did to Gain 3,000 GitHub Stars for the Liam Repository

#github #opensource #marketing #liamerd

7 min read

Apr 3

The Importance of Contributor Recognition Systems in Open Source Projects

#contributorrecognition #opensource #communityengagement

7 min read

Yvonne

Apr 12

Managing EC2 Instances with the AWS CLI

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

4 min read

Apr 21

Day 6/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery: Group Account Management

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

4 min read

Dakshitha

Apr 21

All Your APIs, One Control Plane: What's New in WSO2 API Manager’s Latest Release

#webdev #api #apigateway #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2

Feature release 0.48.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #gha #opensource

4 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA FASHINA

Apr 24

The Cloud Security Blind Spots: What Most Cloud Engineers Don’t Know About Linux Security

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #redhat

5 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

How Focus Bubble™ Works: Enter Your Distraction-Free Zone

#focus #productivity #devtools #opensource

1 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

How FlowForge™ Works: AI-Powered Time & Energy Planning

#ai #productivity #calendar #opensource

1 min read

Apr 21

Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

#opensource #wiki #docmost #notion

2 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

Introducing NeuroSync — The Emotionally Intelligent Productivity OS (Open-Source & Modular)

#opensource #productivity #ai #startup

2 min read

NocoBase

Apr 2

The Best Open-Source Alternatives to AppSheet in 2025

#opensource #appsheet #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Mar 28

A new way to sync your Obsidian vault

#react #javascript #typescript #opensource

8 min read

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