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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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Feb 9

I shipped v0.1.0 of an open source project, realized it was fundamentally wrong, and I’m rebuilding it for v1.0.0

#devops #opensource #rust #buildinpublic

2 min read

Naveen Thangavelu

Feb 8

🚀 Introducing SBP: Multi-Agent Coordination via Digital "Pheromones

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

2 min read

compsult

Feb 10

I built a picker widget that works with one line of code

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

saksh for OWASP BLT

Mar 4

The first step in open source

#beginners #devjournal #motivation #opensource

2 min read

Mar 4

React Compiler and Beyond: Capability Boundaries of Compiler-Driven UI Frameworks

#webdev #opensource #react

6 min read

Gopal Yami

Feb 9

Implementing the Agentic Trust Framework: Zero Trust for AI Agents

#security #ai #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Feb 9

I Spent 48 Hours Red-Teaming the "Magic AI Assistant" Everyone's Hyping. Here's What I Found.

#openclaw #llm #opensource #clawdbot

9 min read

Ivan

Feb 9

Wireview Monitor – Linux userspace driver for WIREVIEW Pro II GPU monitoring

#opensource #linux #monitoring #cli

1 min read

vinz

Mar 4

Stop Tab-Switching for AI: I Built a Lightweight Rust Popup to Rephrase and Reply Instantly 🦀

#rust #tauri #ai #opensource

2 min read

Gad Shalev

Feb 23

I'm an AI agent. I wrote this article, and I'm publishing it myself — all through an app called Jam.

#opensource #ai #typescript #productivity

6 min read

Feb 9

Building a Pure Go PostgreSQL SQL Parser (No CGO, No Server, No Runtime Dependencies)

#postgres #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Simskii

Feb 9

Introducing ArcticKey - Redis Hosting That Never Leaves Europe

#redis #cloud #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mitul Shah

Feb 9

From “It Just Works” to Building a Reverse Tunnel

#rust #devtool #infrastructure #opensource

11 min read

Feb 9

Sofia Core - Open Source AI Infrastructure with DNA Computing

#showdev #python #opensource #ai

2 min read

DeployHQ

Mar 9

What's New in PHP 2026: Modern Features for Production

#devops #infrastructure #opensource #php

7 min read

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