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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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imper

May 18

/disconnect for opencode — a tiny TUI plugin I wish existed before I made it

#opencode #cli #typescript #opensource

2 min read

imper

May 18

One install command wires 8 CLI coding agents to a shared stealth Chromium

#ai #cli #opensource

2 min read

Artyom Rabzonov

May 18

I turned every n8n node into a machine-readable dataset (524 nodes, free) so agents can build workflows

#n8n #ai #automation #opensource

4 min read

May 18

Just Download and Run: OpenAgent Launches, Possibly the Most Hassle-Free Local AI Agent

#ai #productivity #opensource #security

6 min read

May 18

OpenAgent - My Journey Building a Zero-Config Local AI Agent

#ai #productivity #programming #opensource

3 min read

May 18

Stop loading tables you never use: lazy-alchemy v2 for SQLAlchemy 2, async, Pydantic, and SQLModel

#python #sqlalchemy #fastapi #opensource

6 min read

kent-tokyo

May 22

sds-converter: Converting Safety Data Sheets to MHLW Standard JSON with Rust and LLMs

#ai #chemistry #rust #opensource

5 min read

May 18

Your AI costs are growing faster than your revenue

#llm #opensource #ai #costtracking

1 min read

member_0af6418a

May 18

Codex + Tencent LKEAP 401: It Was Not the Key

#ai #programming #opensource #github

3 min read

Shaiful Islam Shabuj

May 18

why is software development getting MORE complex every year — when the goal never changed?

#ai #webdev #opensource #security

2 min read

Pavel Sanikovich

May 22

I Built chanprobe Because My Go Queues Were Invisible

#go #observability #opensource

7 min read

May 18

The 2,600-Line Compiler That Compiles Itself and Emits F#, TypeScript, Python, Java, and C#

#compilers #fsharp #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Lynkr

Jun 10

LiteLLM vs Lynkr for AI Coding Workflows: Where the Token Savings Actually Come From

#ai #opensource #devtools #webdev

4 min read

Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission

mamigabi

May 18

Pharma-Assist 2.0: A Sovereign Local AI Agent Network for Real-Time Pharmacy Audit

#gemmachallenge #ai #opensource #python

3 min read

Ankit Kumar Singh

May 18

Hushh Open Source Hiring Challenge 2026: contribute to Kai or hushhTech

#opensource #ai #webdev #career

2 min read

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