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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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#opensource #frameit #react #typescript

4 min read

Introducing dbfuse-ai — An Open-Source, Cross-Database GUI with AI-Powered SQL (Looking for Contributors)

#ai #programming #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Laura Salinas for AWS

Build Multi-Agent Systems Using the Agents as Tools Pattern

#aws #beginners #learning #opensource

6 min read

Ruly Altamirano

LuminoraCore v1.1: Your AI Memory That Actually Travels 🧠✨

#showdev #opensource #ai #tooling

5 min read

Alberto Luiz Souza

Analisando Práticas de Teste do Projeto Hollow da Netflix: Lições de Código Open Source

#testing #learning #java #opensource

5 min read

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How we built Hermes - a military-grade encryption tool that's ready for the quantum computing era

#webdev #rust #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Introducing dbfuse-ai — An Open-Source, Cross-Database GUI with AI-Powered SQL (Looking for Contributors)

#ai #programming #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Aisalkyn Aidarova

Kafka

#dataengineering #beginners #opensource #architecture

10 min read

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Emmanuel Victor

Smart_Store Schema Guide: Future-Proofing Your Data with Versioning

#career #architecture #opensource #cpp

2 min read

🚀 Announcing gibr: A CLI that auto-generates clean, consistent Git branch names

#productivity #git #opensource #devops

3 min read

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Apache Dev Mail Digest: Iceberg & Polaris (Nov 12–17, 2025)

#architecture #dataengineering #opensource

4 min read

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Introducing PDFding on PikaPods

#discuss #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

The Hard-Coded Crash: A Story of Dynamic Heap Allocation in Node.js

#node #opensource #typescript #javascript

6 min read

Vishwajeet Sharma

Introducing ScreenAI: An Open-Source AI Assistant for Chrome with Screen OCR

#showdev #opensource #ai #javascript

2 min read

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Introducing GuardScan: 100% Free, Privacy-First AI Code Review & Security Scanning CLI

#programming #productivity #security #opensource

3 min read

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How I Built Vidurai: When Ancient Philosophy Meets Modern AI

#ai #productivity #opensource #python

2 min read

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Tirumalarao Naidu

🚀 Project Management in 2025: Why the PMBOK® Guide, Eighth Edition, Marks a Turning Point

#pmp #pmbok #opensource #portfolio

4 min read

How I Wrote My First Python Script (And Why It Made Me Love Coding)

#opensource #python #beginners #dohackathon

1 min read

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SlimPDF - A Lightweight and Privacy-Friendly PDF Compressor

#python #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

CurlDotNet is Live on NuGet! Copy-Paste curl Commands 🚀 Directly into C#

#dotnet #opensource #csharp #tutorial

3 min read

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Built a Framework for AI Coding Assistants in Multi-Repo Projects (and You Can Use It)

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Built a Framework for AI Coding Assistants in Multi-Repo Projects (and You Can Use It)

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Thiago Massari Guedes

Compiling Window Maker in a Debian-based OS

#linux #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Conslee: a tiny Docker-aware reverse proxy that lets your containers sleep

#docker #containers #opensource #devops

3 min read

Infinibay Development update #01

#opensource #programming #vdi #linux

2 min read

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