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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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May 29

Building Helix: An Open-Source Visual Identity Mapper That Cuts the Noise

#python #opensource #security #osint

2 min read

May 30

The Agent That Never Forgets: How Nous Research's Hermes Agent Is Rewriting the Rules of Open-Source AI

#news #agents #ai #opensource

1 min read

Callebe Josué Cantú

May 29

I built my own programming language in Python (Exper Language)

#python #programming #interpreters #opensource

2 min read

May 29

The Beautiful Cube Series Identity That Looks Like Coincidence

#showdev #learning #opensource #science

2 min read

May 29

Concluí o Volume 1 da Stackovia Learning Series: 13 capítulos gratuitos + projeto integrador

#showdev #beginners #learning #opensource

5 min read

Jun 19

Why 'Offline-First AI' Is No Longer Optional for the Global South

#mcp #ai #opensource #africa

3 min read

May 29

Auto-Convert Every WordPress Upload to WebP (Free, No Cloud Service)

#wordpress #webdev #opensource

3 min read

jk-kaluga

May 29

Preserving semantic styles from DOCX/ODT in Go

#go #epub #publishing #opensource

4 min read

zk0x /// ℹ️

May 29

I Built an AI Agent That Earns Money While I Sleep — Here's What Actually Works

#ai #opensource #money #agents

1 min read

Daniel Sá

May 29

Teltonika-Go Update: From Initial Release to Full Codec Support

#go #opensource #iot #gps

3 min read

May 29

Why I built an AI repair loop that stops after one fix on purpose

#ai #opensource #devops #productivity

4 min read

zk0x /// ℹ️

May 29

How to Make Your First $1,000 in Open Source (A Realistic 2026 Guide)

#opensource #github #programming #career

5 min read

Deibyg

Jun 2

I spent $514 on Claude Code in 30 days. Here's what I learned.

#claude #ai #productivity #opensource

4 min read

May 29

How do you benchmark a product you built yourself?

#ai #opensource #benchmarking #mcp

2 min read

Qimin Zhao

May 29

How I would use local read-only AI for first-pass server incident response

#incidentresponse #security #opensource #ai

2 min read

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