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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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Николай Поляков

Jun 21

Clean UTM links with Cyrillic transliteration (and a zero-dep marketing-metrics lib)

#javascript #marketing #opensource #dart

2 min read

Jun 21

Self-Host Your Personal Finance Manager in 5 Minutes with Docker

#docker #tutorial #opensource #finance

2 min read

Jun 21

How to Batch Convert Any Media Format on Linux with One GUI

#tutorial #opensource #java

3 min read

Foxaura AI

Jun 21

❄️ TabFrost – Memory Saver

#opensource #firefox

1 min read

Veems

Jun 21

permadiff: separate Terraform plan noise from real changes — and fix it at the source

#terraform #aws #devops #opensource

3 min read

Manuel Bruña for Agent Project Context

Jun 21

The Web Admin Is a Window, Not a Second Source of Truth

#ai #opensource #devtools #tutorial

3 min read

Jun 21

I built a Chrome extension because I was tired of losing my tab sessions

#chrome #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

SSX360

Jun 21

Who actually wrote that commit... you, or your AI agent?

#security #git #opensource #ai

4 min read

Jun 21

Stop measuring Web3 growth with Web2 metrics — Contribution > DAU

#showdev #webdev #web3 #opensource

4 min read

Jun 21

CodeGraph Review 2026: This MCP Server Cut My AI Agent's Token Waste by 47%

#ai #developertools #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Jun 21

Blackbox Monitoring vs Internal Metrics - The Gap Between "Healthy" and "Working"

#monitoring #devops #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 21

Most apps do not need a full date library, so I built a 2KB one

#javascript #typescript #npm #opensource

3 min read

JackChen

Jun 21

Goal In, DAG Out: How Open-Multi-Agent Turns a Goal into a Task DAG

#typescript #ai #agents #opensource

7 min read

Jun 21

知识采集不是存文档，是给 AI 喂「可检索的记忆」

#ai #automation #opensource

1 min read

Jun 21

Migrating off the discontinued flutter_adaptive_scaffold — keeping go_router and your state

#flutter #dart #mobile #opensource

3 min read

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