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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 24

Stop Your AI Agent From Building What Already Exists

#ai #mcp #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Feb 1

When a 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought Free Software 'Piracy'

#discuss #opensource #microsoft #learning

1 min read

Feb 1

Train Your Own Z-Image Turbo LoRA on cloud GPUs

#ai #tutorial #opensource #learning

4 min read

Ingo Steinke, web developer

Mar 2

Using Slightly Broken Smartphones thanks to Accessibility

#ai #android #mobile #opensource

10 min read

Feb 1

I open-sourced a comprehensive fitness calculator library for TypeScript

#typescript #opensource #fitness #javascript

2 min read

Gregory

Feb 21

I Vibe-Coded a GPU Accelerated Face Cropping Tool in Rust — Here’s Why

#showdev #opensource #rust #sideprojects

4 min read

Feb 1

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Aaron Ross

Feb 1

I built a civic engagement platform because contacting your representatives shouldn't be this hard

#opensource #webdev #ai #react

3 min read

Anton

Feb 24

Servactory — Typed Service Objects with Declarative Actions for Ruby

#ruby #rails #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Shin

Feb 2

Stop / Delay / Block: a minimal execution safety gate (30-second demo)

#ai #python #opensource #security

2 min read

BLACKDWARF for SIPHON

Feb 1

Build a 24/7 AI Receptionist in 15 Mins (Python + Google Calendar)

#python #opensource #ai #tutorial

4 min read

Vishal VeeraReddy

Feb 1

How I Cut My AI Coding Tool Costs by 70% (And You Can Too)

#ai #opensource #productivity #tutorial

3 min read

LywwKkA-aD

Feb 5

I Built a Kubernetes TUI Because I Was Too Lazy to Type kubectl

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #go

2 min read

Roberto | Hyper-Tools

Feb 1

Tired of DMV Wait Times? I Built a "Cyborg" Extension to Snipe Appointments 🚗💨

#chromeextension #productivity #automation #opensource

2 min read

OneMind

Feb 11

Moltbook proved AI agents can talk. But can they agree?

#showdev #ai #discuss #opensource

3 min read

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