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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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Dec 4

🎃 Resurrecting Dead Tech: Turning a 1990s Fax Machine into a Portal to the Afterlife

#kiro #kiroween #opensource #ai

4 min read

Can Mingir for Centaur AI

Dec 3

Training Large Reasoning Models

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm

1 min read

Dec 8

Finding Open Source Projects to Contribute To

#webdev #opensource

2 min read

nottelabs

Dec 3

What can I build with Notte?

#webdev #ai #devops #opensource

4 min read

Dec 4

Linux in Action: Resetting the root Password on RHEL (RHEL 9 & 10)

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

3 min read

Kyle Homen

Dec 3

Project Plan for OSD Release 0.4

#godotengine #gdscript #opensource

2 min read

Dec 7

My first python app: TidyBit - a simple file manager

#showdev #python #opensource #learning

1 min read

FerrisMind

Dec 4

Oxide Lab: Private Local AI Chat on Your PC - No Internet, No Subscriptions Required

#opensource #rust #svelte #ai

5 min read

Alok Kumar

Dec 4

Reducing Flaky Tests in CI/CD: A Complete Playbook for Engineering Teams

#flakytest #e2e #testing #opensource

4 min read

Ahmet

Dec 7

I built an open-source Windows optimization tool – free to use

#opensource #webdev #productivity #tooling

1 min read

Dec 4

Building an Open-Source Icon Library with AIVector: A Practical Workflow

#ai #tutorial #ui #opensource

3 min read

Rojain Ebna Atik

Dec 7

Top 13 Figma Icon Plugins For Free in 2025

#figma #beginners #react #opensource

8 min read

SeaQL

Dec 3

SeaORM 2.0: A closer look

#database #opensource #rust

9 min read

Max for bitcrowd

Dec 3

Loading Chrome extensions for development in 2025

#chrome #browserextension #opensource #development

5 min read

Dec 3

MapLibre GL JS - Enabling large number of moveable sprites

#opensource #typescript #maplibre #webdev

1 min read

Dec 3

API layer in Umami codebase - Part 1.2

#umami #opensource #architecture #api

3 min read

Dec 2

How to Protect Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers with OpenAM and OpenIG

#opensource #tutorial #mcp #security

9 min read

Dec 1

Building a Production-Ready GNOME Extension with Kiro: From CLI to GUI in Record Time

#kiro #gnome #linux #opensource

3 min read

Dec 2

API layer in Umami codebase - Part 1.1

#umami #opensource #architecture #apilayer

5 min read

Emmanuel Victor

Dec 1

Smart_Store: Triple-Lock Validation for Secure Data Imports

#opensource #architecture #cpp #database

3 min read

Gabriela Luzkalid Gutierrez Mamani

Dec 3

The Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Comprehensive Technical Report

#llm #architecture #opensource #ai

12 min read

Dec 1

The Architecture Behind a Stateless AI Application

#ai #webdev #opensource #computerscience

6 min read

Dec 1

Building Shamba-MedCare AI app for Real Users

#ai #webdev #opensource #computerscience

4 min read

Dec 6

There is a Better Way to Discover Trending GitHub Repos 🚀

#news #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Leonardo Rodrigues

Dec 1

Pequenos atalhos Git que deixaram meu fluxo de trabalho muito mais rápido

#git #produtividade #terminal #opensource

3 min read

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