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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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Tiago

Feb 28

Meet Auric Trade Collective!

#socialist #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Mar 13

The Three Things Wrong with AI Agents in 2026

#ai #agents #opensource #beginners

4 min read

orjinameh

Feb 27

How I Added Screenshare Sound Notifications to an Open Source Chat App

#typescript #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Martin Tuncaydin

Mar 13

Open-Source Tools Every Travel Technologist Should Know in 2024

#opensource #traveltechnology #api #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

Sergio Agustin De Vita

Feb 27

I Built a Notepad++ Alternative for Mac — Here's What I Learned

#showdev #opensource #webdev #typescript

2 min read

Will

Feb 27

I Turned Claude into an Executive Assistant. Here's What Happened

#ai #opensource #productivity #agents

6 min read

Feb 27

I replaced a Puppeteer service with 39 lines of code

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Herin Soni

Feb 28

I was drowning in undocumented repos, so I built WhatDoc

#discuss #webdev #ai #opensource

4 min read

sqblg

Feb 27

Why Your OpenClaw Token Bill is Sky-High (and How to Fix It Without Losing IQ)

#ai #opensource #productivity #automation

2 min read

Mar 13

PrinceJS 2.1: The 4.8kB Bun Framework Just Got Even Faster (21.7k req/s) and Fully Loaded

#bunjs #opensource #webdev #typescript

3 min read

Terglos

Feb 27

I built an open-source WhatsApp Business inbox for teams — here's how

#opensource #webdev #javascript #typescript

2 min read

Feb 28

Protocol Launcher Series: One-Click GitHub Desktop Collaboration

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Adeoye Enoch Olamilekan

Feb 27

Stop Hardcoding API Keys! Secure Your Secrets with Firebase Secret Manager

#webdev #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 12

I Built a Breach Monitoring System That Runs in Your Terminal

#privacy #security #python #opensource

2 min read

DKistenev

Feb 27

Building an Inner Life for OpenClaw

#openclaw #ai #agents #opensource

4 min read

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