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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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Apr 10

Create Your First Chatbot for Data Analysis: Introducing Powerdrill Flow

#opensource #chatgpt

3 min read

Apr 10

15 Free Status Page Tools in 2025

#devops #monitoring #freestatuspage #opensource

9 min read

Miki Makhlevich

Apr 22

The Very First MCP Generator to Support Auth!

#mcp #python #fastapi #opensource

2 min read

Apr 23

I tried every open source database and found only one is useful

#database #opensource #postgres #mongodb

8 min read

Sandarbh Bajpai

Apr 9

Olake (Lakehouse)

#devrel #database #opensource #sql

2 min read

Apr 9

Coroot – eBPF-based, open source observability with actionable insights

#devops #opensource #kubernetes

1 min read

Apr 9

🌱 New Feature: Beautiful Per-Command Help for the Greening CLI

#python #opensource #tutorial #automation

2 min read

Apr 9

The Open Source Lessons I’m Sharing to Empower Fellow Developers

#opensource #beginners #career #learning

1 min read

Herdi Tr.

Apr 9

Introducing Guantr: A Type-Safe Authorization Library for JavaScript/TypeScript

#javascript #authorization #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 9

Visualizing Mastodon’s Data Schema with Liam ERD

#mastodon #liamerd #erd #opensource

5 min read

Eleftheria Stein-Kousathana for Stacklok

Apr 22

Announcing the LLM Security Leaderboard: Evaluating AI Models Through a Security Lens

#ai #security #opensource

2 min read

Apr 22

Introducing Yummunity: An Open-Source Recipe Discovery Social Platform

#angular #webdev #sideprojects #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Apr 9

[Tutorial] Chapter 9: Task Dashboard: Charts

#opensource #tutorial #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

NocoBase

Apr 9

[Tutorial] Chapter 8: Knowledge Base - Tree Collection

#tutorial #learning #opensource #lowcode

7 min read

Matheus Ricardo

Apr 9

The Power of the README: The First Impression That Defines Your Projects and Profile

#github #documentation #softwaredevelopment #opensource

5 min read

Alina Khmilevska

Apr 9

Migration from Drupal 7: Why You Should Start with a Clean Slate ✨

#webdev #programming #drupal #opensource

9 min read

Leo Ko

Apr 11

Automating CS Refund Inquiries with an AI Agent: Using Agentica

#typescript #opensource #programming #ai

6 min read

Apr 8

🚀 Introducing Solaris UI v3 — A React Component Library I Built to Speed Up Development

#web #opensource #nextjs #react

1 min read

Anas T

Apr 8

A Beginner's Guide to Auto-Instrumenting a Flask App with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

#opensource #beginners #monitoring #opentelemetry

9 min read

Apr 22

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

#opensource #notion #wiki #docmost

3 min read

Anshi

Apr 8

🚀 Utilizing Docker with Ollama for Hosting DeepSeek R1-8B: Step-by-Step Instructions for Developers

#docker #opensource #deepseek #llm

4 min read

Apr 8

Understanding Log Levels: A Guide to Effective Logging.

#programming #opensource #learning #microservices

4 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 8

Tuning Edge Animations in Reactflow for Optimal Performance

#reactflow #liamerd #erd #opensource

5 min read

Apr 21

From Scripts to Cloud: My Hands-On Guide to ML + DevOps

#ai #devops #opensource #aws

4 min read

Apr 7

Elastic License: A Comprehensive Exploration of Fair Code Licensing and Open Source Sustainability

#elasticlicense #opensource #faircodelicensing

8 min read

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