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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.

submission guidelines

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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Jan 12

🚀 AI Article Summarizer | Fast & Clean AI-Powered Summary Tool Built with Next.js

#nextjs #ai #react #opensource

1 min read

TunaDev

Jan 12

I built an AI tutor to learn GeoGuessr-style visual geography (not a solver)

#showdev #ai #learning #opensource

1 min read

Jan 12

Error handling anti-patterns rules Claude-Mem codebase.

#opensource #claude #mem #errors

4 min read

Calvin A. Allen

Jan 16

Introducing rnr - A Zero-Dependency Task Runner

#rust #opensource #cli

4 min read

chovy

Feb 14

Your Bookmarks Are Trapped — Here's How to Free Them

#browser #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

TI

Jan 12

Announcing Kreuzberg v4

#opensource #python #rust #ai

3 min read

Jan 12

The Clubhouse Protocol: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Governance

#discuss #architecture #community #opensource

7 min read

freerave

Feb 15

I Rewrote My VS Code Extension's Core Engine: Meet DotFetch v1.1

#vscode #opensource #productivity #javascript

1 min read

Joseph Pascal Yao

Jan 12

My first real project : Lemon chat

#programming #beginners #csharp #opensource

1 min read

Alex

Jan 16

Simple React library for collecting user feedback (opensource)

#showdev #javascript #opensource #react

3 min read

ien-info

Jan 17

Tayo Programming Language

#beginners #codenewbie #opensource #programming

2 min read

Marvin Ma

Feb 15

I Built a Tool to Stop AI Coding Agents from Forgetting Everything Between Sessions

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jan 9

I built a runtime execution kernel for AI agents — not another framework

#python #ai #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Dr. E

Jan 11

Flutter ECS: Mastering Async Operations and Complex Workflows

#flutter #dart #programming #opensource

2 min read

Pat

Feb 15

LaunchFast vs ShipFast: Honest Comparison for 2026

#nextjs #saas #webdev #opensource

7 min read

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