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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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Wanda

Mar 19

What is OpenViking ?

#agents #ai #opensource #rag

11 min read

Mar 14

I Published a Python Package in 2019. Revisiting It in 2026 Reminded Me of Something

#python #opensource #programming #development

3 min read

Mar 28

"The Agent Didn't Decide Wrong. The Instructions Were Conflicting — and Nobody Noticed."

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

5 min read

Mar 28

GitHub Spec Kit Is 80% Right — Here's the Missing 20% That Would Make It Transformative

#ai #github #softwaredevelopment #opensource

7 min read

Oarcom

Mar 14

I Used a Newsroom Privacy Tool to Audit 100+ Adult Sites. Here's How the Stack Works.

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Mar 14

Why Django Needs Convention Over Configuration (And How DJX Fixes It)

#webdev #python #django #opensource

2 min read

devpulseai

Mar 14

I built an AI code reviewer solo for 3 months. Here's what I learned and why I'm open sourcing it.

#webdev #ai #opensource #django

2 min read

TNDrApi

Mar 14

How to access EU & French public tenders via API (free, no auth required)

#api #python #opensource #webdev

2 min read

GrimLabs

Mar 14

How I Built an Open-Source DocSend Alternative

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #javascript

4 min read

Mar 18

How I solved Claude Code's biggest missing feature

#claudecode #cli #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Dana Aus

Mar 14

Magshare: A CLI tool that allows local file sharing

#discuss #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 14

Stirling Pdf Vs Ilovepdf

#opensource #privacy #productivity #tooling

7 min read

jreeeedd

Mar 14

What Schepta is and what problem it solves

#webdev #ai #opensource #ui

2 min read

Peter Ma

Mar 28

Aegis v1.3: Quality Guardrails for AI-Assisted Development — Testing Standards with Code Examples

#ai #agentskill #coding #opensource

3 min read

Lena

Mar 15

Kiksi AI Redesign: Smarter Workflows Over Model Size

#discord #bot #opensource

2 min read

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