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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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Dec 6 '25

VulnFeed 2.0: Building a Zero-Server Vulnerability Dashboard (Level 2 Release)

#security #vulnerabilities #opensource #devops

6 min read

Dec 7 '25

How I Built a Conversation Graph Engine in an Evening

#opensource #ai #typescript #node

3 min read

B Lokajna

Jan 10

“While Others Wait for VS Code to Load, I’m Already Coding in Ecode.”

#coding #vscode #opensource #privacy

3 min read

Dec 6 '25

I built a "Paranoid" Data Protocol that runs away from server seizure or censorship (Python + Rust)

#python #rust #opensource #security

2 min read

Thomas Künneth

Jan 9

F-Droid on ChromeOS: trying to get behind the road blocks

#chromeos #android #opensource #crostini

3 min read

Can Mingir for Centaur AI

Dec 10 '25

Neuro-Symbolic AI: From Research to Industry

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

1 min read

Jan 5

Building My HRT Journey Tracker Workspace: A Modular, Accessible Toolset for the Trans Community

#beginners #python #opensource #appdevelopment

2 min read

Dec 6 '25

Why Central Banks Should Participate and Not Compete in Tokenized Markets.

#discuss #web3 #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Dec 30 '25

Bugs in the Wild West: Top 10 C and C++ errors of 2025

#cpp #c #opensource #erlang

19 min read

Boluwatife

Dec 5 '25

I built a Free "Media Command Center" for Developers (Better than Imgur)

#webdev #nextjs #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jan 9

Shipping CoinPeek: Building a Real-Time Crypto Monitor in Rust

#rust #opensource #cli #websockets

1 min read

estel

Dec 5 '25

Dev Bounties: Get Paid $500+ to Try Openfort (LATAM & Africa/Asia)

#cryptocurrency #webdev #opensource #ai

1 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Dec 6 '25

Unlock Your Brain's Potential: Build AI Assistants with Modular Minds!

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #python

2 min read

Alexandru Spînu

Jan 9

Is the Tailwind "Slow-Motion Demise" a Replay of the Cloud Wars?

#ai #tailwindcss #opensource #programming

2 min read

Jan 6

How I Built a Golang AI Gateway to Cut OpenAI Costs by 90%

#go #ai #systemdesign #opensource

2 min read

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