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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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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Mar 12

I Got Lost in Canary Wharf for 30 Minutes, But I Found the Future of SRE

#sre #cloud #opensource #networking

4 min read

Yurukusa

Mar 13

I Built a GitHub Action That Catches the 'Did You Mean to Leave That console.log?' Comment

#claudecode #github #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Elliot LIU

Mar 13

We Scanned 17 Popular MCP Servers — Here's What We Found

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

4 min read

jreeeedd

Mar 13

Por que não fui pelo caminho comum

#ai #webdev #agents #opensource

2 min read

Riccardo Tartaglia

Mar 13

Why We Need a Standard Language for Agentic Workflows (And Why I Built One)

#ai #agents #tooling #opensource

7 min read

iCe Gaming

Mar 13

Building an AI Commerce Orchestrator in Rust

#rust #ai #api #opensource

4 min read

Blaine

Mar 13

HuntOS: an automated job application tool; and my experience vibe coding

#ai #automation #vibecoding #opensource

7 min read

Mar 13

I Discovered the Ultimate Multi-Agent Coding Setup with Budget Controls 🔥

#mcp #ai #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Eastkap

Mar 13

Your 2026 PTO Cheat Sheet: Exactly Which Days to Take Off

#productivity #career #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths

Mar 13

OpenClaw Just Passed React. Here's What the GitHub Star Leaderboard Actually Looks Like.

#opensource #github #ai #dataanalysis

6 min read

Woojin Ahn

Mar 13

A 13MB Cursor Monitor: AppKit, Undocumented APIs, Zero Dependencies

#cursor #swift #macos #opensource

3 min read

Mar 13

Skill-Driven Development: Transferring your Craft to AI Agents

#ai #automation #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Mar 13

Guard Wolves: a Minecraft plugin I shouldn't have been able to build

#minecraft #gamedev #opensource #beginners

5 min read

Mirko Dimartino

Mar 13

Your Java Regex Just Silently Broke in Production. Here's How to Make That Impossible.

#java #programming #opensource #regex

4 min read

Dan Evans

Mar 13

I built a framework that gives Claude Code 11 specialist agents and structured multi-agent review

#ai #opensource #claude

2 min read

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