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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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Carrie

Apr 24

How to Filter Bot used by SEO and Cyber Attacks in SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #bot #seobot #opensource

2 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 20

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 9)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Rajat

Apr 20

How I built an Android PDF viewer that’s almost 100 KB (ONLY!)

#android #opensource

1 min read

Daniel MacDonald

Apr 20

MatrixSwarm Real-Time Agent Resurrection: Socket-Free Ops with Inotify and Pod Protocol

#webdev #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Jaime Hernández

Apr 20

🧠 JSON AI Inspector: Analyzing JSON with AI (Open Source Tool)

#python #ai #json #opensource

2 min read

Apr 22

🚀PushForge: Modern Web Push Notifications Made Simple🚀

#opensource #webdev #typescript #npm

6 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 18

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 7)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Apr 22

Finding Your Circle: How Teamup Circle Makes Open Source Contribution Accessible

#webdev #opensource #github #community

3 min read

Apr 22

Ultimate Logging Guide for Node.js, Bun, and Next.js SSR in 2025

#node #nextjs #bunjs #opensource

5 min read

TheoForger

Apr 17

Closing the Chapter - Recap

#opensource #beginners

4 min read

Apr 22

Are Google Ads Still Worth It in 2025? A Practical Guide for Beginners

#beginners #googleads #opensource

3 min read

Apr 17

Wireless Display vs. Traditional Connections: What’s Better in 2025?

#webdev #opensource #learning #blockchain

4 min read

Apr 17

Need help getting a feature request into the backlog to enhace the code workspace file browsing

#vscode #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 17

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 6)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

NocoBase

Apr 17

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Some Commercial Plugins Converted to Open Source

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Nickolay Selyutin

Apr 21

Supercharge your .NET Configuration with Flash.Configuration

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Eric Goldman for Sequin

Apr 17

How Debezium captures changes from Postgres

#postgres #opensource #database #architecture

5 min read

TheoForger

Apr 16

Sprint 5 - Chakra UI v3 Migration

#opensource #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Apr 16

Built a 2d collision simulator

#javascript #react #opensource #node

1 min read

Apr 16

Errsole Live on Product Hunt

#node #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Annrapid

Apr 16

🚀 LibreAI: A Self-Hostable, Privacy-First AI Chat App Built with Go + HTMX

#opensource #webdev #selfhosted #chatgpt

2 min read

AlexF

Apr 16

Xata Agent v0.2.0: Powered-up chat, custom playbooks, GCP support & more

#ai #postgres #opensource #database

5 min read

Arber

Apr 16

Alpha Image: Open Source Canvas Tool [built with GPT]

#javascript #chatgpt #opensource #tool

2 min read

DDE

Apr 16

Build AI Agents Fast with DDE Agents

#ai #opensource #developertools #agents

3 min read

Chen Debra

Apr 16

Modify Memory Configuration to Instantly Solve DolphinScheduler CPU Spike Issue

#cpu #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #lowcode

4 min read

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