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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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CodeByAmit

Oct 28

ProjectMaker For Devs

#fullstack #tooling #automation #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

WH yang

Nov 10

Hacktoberfest 2025

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Nov 11

Top Open-Source MCP Servers and SDKs to Explore: Your Gateway to AI Superpowers

#mcp #opensource #ai #typescript

8 min read

Ruqaiya

Nov 11

AI/ML Trends Report

#agenticapp #agentblogreport #opensource #parallelagent

5 min read

Chaitrali Kakde

Nov 10

A Practical Guide to AI Voice Agent Observability: Debugging Latency with VideoSDK Traces

#ai #agents #voiceagent #opensource

5 min read

Raman

Oct 28

Kryypto, a keyboard-driven python text editor.

#python #github #programming #opensource

1 min read

CESAR NIKOLAS CAMAC MELENDEZ

Nov 11

🌐 Build Your Own MCP Server — and Connect It to Any MCP Client (Claude, VSCode, GitHub, and More)

#ai #developers #opensource #programming

3 min read

Oct 27

Code Reading Analysis – Repomix Ignore Feature

#code #git #opensource

2 min read

Nov 2

How I Crushed Timestamp Storage by 56% with Bit Packing

#java #tooling #opensource #data

4 min read

v. Splicer

Nov 21

URBINDEX: Mapping the Hidden Cityscapes

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

6 min read

Nov 11

🧩 How I Built a Lightweight Scroll Animation Library for React

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Stelixx Insider

Nov 11

Tenacity: A Free, Open-Source Audio Editor and Recorder for Cross-Platform Use

#software #opensource #tooling #linux

1 min read

Oct 27

Introducing ReelTrust: What if data engineering could solve our AI deepfakes problem?

#ai #dataengineering #opensource

5 min read

Nathan Tarbert for CopilotKit

Nov 20

How Microsoft Agent Framework + AG-UI Enable Agentic UX & Generative UI

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jramone3

Nov 19

REMI Superada: evolución tras el Agentic Postgres Challenge

#postgres #opensource #audit #security

1 min read

Oct 27

New feature with token count

#programming #opensource #cli #osd600lab6

1 min read

Oct 28

Tauri in Hoppscotch codebase.

#tauri #opensource #hoppscotch #rust

3 min read

Oct 28

Ditch the Specialist Myth: Why I'm a 'Master of Integration' in the Age of AI (And Why Your Team Needs One).

#opensource #performance #devops #career

3 min read

Huỳnh Nhân Quốc

Nov 12

The Indie Path

#dreamer #opensource #kitjs #webdev

4 min read

Beltrán Offerrall

Oct 26

Generates Webs from Type Hints

#showdev #python #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Bartosz Michalak for Momentum

Nov 6

Apple Health MCP Server: Use Cases for Developers

#mcp #apple #opensource #ai

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 31

Hacktoberfest Contribution: Hiero SDK Python

#hacktoberfest #web3 #python #opensource

1 min read

Nov 18

✨ Crafting Procedural Landscapes in Godot 4: A Tool for Your Worlds! ✨

#godot #gamedev #tool #opensource

2 min read

Dharam Ghevariya

Oct 26

Implementing Token Count Optimization in repo-contextr

#openai #tooling #opensource #llm

3 min read

Oct 27

Building Reproducible Geospatial Pipelines: A STAC Extension with DAGs

#data #computerscience #geospatial #opensource

3 min read

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