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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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Comad.J

Apr 14

Why I Reversed My Own Architecture After 27 AI Luminaries Reviewed It

#ai #opensource #architecture #typescript

8 min read

Apr 14

MXGo.ai: privacy-first AI layer for your emails that works without any installation

#ai #automation #productivity #opensource

4 min read

May 7

I open-sourced a 4-agent adversarial code review team. Any coding agent can call it as an MCP server. Built in heym.

#ai #mcp #agents #opensource

6 min read

Alan West

Apr 14

Why Embedding Web Content in Rust Was So Painful (Until Now)

#rust #servo #webdev #opensource

6 min read

May 7

Milestone! 1200th PR Merged to Ruby Core

#ruby #opensource #contributing

1 min read

Johannes

Apr 14

For Years I Built a Local Database for My Home. Now AI Is the Interface.

#showdev #mcp #ai #opensource

3 min read

Gad Ofir

Apr 15

LOS-starter: The Markdown Memory System That Makes Claude Code Remember

#productivity #opensource #tooling #ai

4 min read

Apr 14

Le migliori librerie di notifiche per React Native nel 2026: quale scegliere?

#reactnative #react #opensource #npm

7 min read

Alexander Leonhard

Apr 14

Why building a job scraper for $0.39/1,000 jobs is not about the money.

#agents #mcp #ai #opensource

5 min read

Apr 19

I Generated a Full SaaS UI in 31 Minutes — With One Prompt

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

11 min read

May 7

Introducing XLog: A Static Site Generator Built for Knowledge Bases

#go #markdown #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Sharjeel Zubair

Apr 14

I Built a Multi-Tenant School Helpdesk in Laravel — Here's the Full Stack

#laravel #opensource #saas #php

5 min read

Metra

Apr 15

I Analyzed Solar Panel ROI Across All 50 US States Using Government Data — Here's What Surprised Me

#solar #data #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Apr 14

Bugmageddon Is Real. But Bug Discovery Isn’t the Real Bottleneck Anymore.

#security #ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

Igor Giamoniano

Apr 14

How to Remove Orphan Linux Boot Entries from Windows 11 UEFI

#linux #opensource #tutorial #beginners

3 min read

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