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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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Tilanga Pramith

Jul 1

I built a drop-in AI chatbot widget for React that works with any provider — here's why

#react #typescript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Elango 13

Jul 1

I Built a Zero-Dependency React Rich Text Editor — Here's How to Use It

#react #webdev #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Muhammed Enes Duran

Jul 1

Building a Secure MCP Bridge for ArcGIS Pro and ArcPy

#python #gis #opensource #mcp

5 min read

Dharun R

Jul 1

Stripped the best feature out of Google Antigravity and made it open source

#antigravity #opensource #programming #productivity

1 min read

Ilia Alshanetsky

Jul 1

I objected to deprecating metaphone(). Then I read the RFC.

#showdev #php #phonetic #opensource

7 min read

Jul 1

Local-First vs. Cloud Password Managers: What SMBs Should Know

#security #rust #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jul 1

How to split 10GB JSON files in seconds without hitting RAM limits

#go #performance #opensource

4 min read

mage0535

Jul 1

Knowledge-and-Memory-Management: Finalizing Directions 1-3 Documentation

#ai #automation #opensource

3 min read

Jul 1

Most "funded" bounty issues are already dead. I built a CLI to check before you waste an hour.

#github #python #opensource

2 min read

Meronq

Jul 1

Sprint 4 closed: GitHub Integration

#devtools #ai #opensource #engineering

1 min read

Thomas Bnt

Jul 1

Acronyms and Jargon in Development and Open Source

#opensource #learning #beginners

4 min read

Dmitry Bychinsky

Jul 1

An LLM Thinks in Tokens

#ai #designsystem #design #opensource

9 min read

apives

Jul 1

Stop Writing Custom Auth, Analytics, and Media Pipelines in 2026. You’re Wasting Your SaaS Margin.

#webdev #api #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mininglamp

Jul 1

Octo: Giving AI Agents a Desk, an Identity, and a Performance Review

#ai #opensource #productivity #devops

4 min read

Man Hoang

Jul 1

Zustand Felt Off. Redux Was a No. So I Built My Own.

#typescript #javascript #opensource #webdev

9 min read

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