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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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Cover image for Music Monday Spotify Open-Source Sync Bot

Dec 15

Music Monday Spotify Open-Source Sync Bot

#ruby #opensource #automation #music

2 min read

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Shayan

Dec 15

I Fixed Blender's Render Output Paths ( Because it SUCKS! )

#showdev #blender #opensource

1 min read

Dec 15

Why I Built Framework-Agnostic UI Components with Web Components

#webcomponents #typescript #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Dec 14

Building the Ultimate Reddit Scraper: A Full-Featured, API-Free Data Collection Suite

#reddit #scraper #powerplatform #opensource

7 min read

Alan Tsai

Dec 15

An AI Almost Deleted My Code

#ai #opensource #devtools #programming

4 min read

Edvin

Dec 15

I built a Free Spotify to YouTube Music Migrator 🎵 (Python + React)

#python #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

gamh5games

Dec 15

Designing Difficulty Curves That Work in Browser Platformer Games

#tutorial #devops #python #opensource

2 min read

Divyanshu Sinha

Dec 15

🚀 Introducing TigerASM: Your Rust-to-Python Runtime Assembler Library 🐯⚡

#assembly #python #jit #opensource

2 min read

Göktürk Talha Çetin

Dec 15

How I Built a Script to Bulk Unlike All Songs on YouTube Music (2025 - Anti-Spam Edition)

#javascript #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

Dec 15

Debug Fiber APIs Like a Pro with GoRequestTracer: JSON Logging, DB Queries, and Panic Tracking

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for DevOps Rex 2025 : Retour sur deux jours de conférences

yohann streibel for Onepoint

Dec 15

DevOps Rex 2025 : Retour sur deux jours de conférences

#devops #cloud #rex #opensource

5 min read

Cover image for How I ship power-options to all major Linux distros with 0 hassle

Dec 15

How I ship power-options to all major Linux distros with 0 hassle

#linux #devops #opensource #programming

2 min read

Cover image for How Deep Agents Actually Work: A Browsr Architecture Walkthrough

Dec 15

How Deep Agents Actually Work: A Browsr Architecture Walkthrough

#ai #opensource #webdev #llm

4 min read

Cover image for 🛠️ I Got Tired of Using 10 Different Websites — So I Built One

axevora

Dec 15

🛠️ I Got Tired of Using 10 Different Websites — So I Built One

#ai #productivity #opensource #startup

1 min read

Alberto Luiz Souza

Dec 15

Analisando o Código Fonte do Outbox Namastech.io: Uma Implementação Genérica do Outbox Pattern

#java #architecture #springboot #opensource

9 min read

Edvin

Dec 15

I built the Ultimate Open Source YouTube Downloader (No Ads, Next.js 16) 🎥

#nextjs #react #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Cover image for Why I Built an Offline Pre-Audit Platform for Supply Chain Security (Before Scanning or Pentesting)

Nelson

Dec 15

Why I Built an Offline Pre-Audit Platform for Supply Chain Security (Before Scanning or Pentesting)

#security #infosec #opensource #cicd

1 min read

Dec 15

OptaPlanner in Action: Building Smarter Planning and Scheduling Systems

#ai #java #opensource

4 min read

Water Run

Dec 15

luainstaller 2.0: Package Your .lua Scripts into Native Binaries

#lua #linux #python #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for The State of Open Source 2025 - Key Takeaways

fmerian

Dec 15

The State of Open Source 2025 - Key Takeaways

#discuss #opensource #github #ai

1 min read

Cover image for Adafruit: Arduino's Rules are 'Incompatible with Open Source'

Dec 14

Adafruit: Arduino's Rules are 'Incompatible with Open Source'

#arduino #adafruit #opensource #ai

1 min read

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MABD

Dec 14

Search Engine from Scratch — Part 1: The Inverted Index

#softwaredevelopment #buildinpublic #opensource #learning

3 min read

Ludvig2457

Dec 14

🚀 Building the Impossible: A Python Code Editor That Launches in 0.5 Seconds

#showdev #python #opensource #vscode

3 min read

Cover image for I built a Free Privacy-First Signature Generator (No Sign-Up required)

Dec 14

I built a Free Privacy-First Signature Generator (No Sign-Up required)

#showdev #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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Dec 14

What is IPvlan network driver?

#devops #docker #learning #opensource

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