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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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Nov 27

Components structure in Umami codebase - Part 1.3

#umami #opensource #components #structure

3 min read

Dec 9

MCP Wins, But the War Just Started: Why Standardization Won't Save Us from Lock-in

#discuss #ai #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Nov 27

Unlocking Algorithmic Elegance: AI's Blind Spot and the Power of Evolutionary Mappings by Arvind Sundararajan

#ai #algorithms #opensource #research

2 min read

Wiz

Dec 9

I Got Tired of JavaScript's Date API So I Fixed It

#javascript #typescript #npm #opensource

4 min read

Nov 26

I Built an Open-Source Tool for Debugging Kubernetes Agentically

#kubernetes #opensource #ai #devops

3 min read

Sophia

Nov 26

Open-Weight AI for High-Quality Image Generation & Editing

#ai #deeplearning #opensource

4 min read

fmerian

Nov 27

Launched Ultracite on Product Hunt twice. Here's what I learned.

#showdev #opensource #marketing

2 min read

ElshadHu

Nov 28

Contributing to roslibjs: From Defeat to Merged PR

#robotics #devjournal #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Prisca Onwudebelu Ebubechukwu

Nov 27

How to Find Beginner-Friendly Open Source Projects (Without Feeling Overwhelmed)

#opensource #beginners #frontend #webdev

2 min read

PRAS Samin

Nov 25

Introducing Redenv - A Zero-Knowledge, End-to-End Encrypted Secret Manager Built for the Serverless Era

#redenv #serverless #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Meysam

Nov 26

48 hours until Awesome Directories launches on Product Hunt

#buildinpublic #opensource #startup #productivity

1 min read

Nov 24

Building Container Images Without Docker: Introducing pycontainer-build

#python #docker #devops #opensource

6 min read

Sophia

Nov 27

Z-Image: Alibaba's 6B-Parameter Open-Source Model Revolutionizes Efficient Image Generation

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #tooling

5 min read

Gaddour

Nov 26

Our AI Automation Agent Got Accepted at RoboCon 2026 Conference

#testing #automation #ai #opensource

4 min read

Harry Kimpel for New Relic

Nov 25

Optimizing Kafka Tracing with OpenTelemetry: Boost Visibility & Performance

#kafka #opentelemetry #newrelic #opensource

6 min read

Sophia

Nov 25

sam3d Under the Hood: How Meta’s Model Makes Single-Image 3D Reconstruction Accessible to Developers

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Abhinav

Nov 24

Shipping 1.0.0: From Local Repo to a Published Python Package

#python #cli #opensource

3 min read

Nov 26

Ephemeral Vulnerability Scanner: Pure Client-Side JS for Windows/Linux/macOS Vuln Analysis

#security #opensource #devsecops #vulnerabilityscanning

1 min read

Ago

Nov 26

2FA2FA – Free Online Two-Factor Authentication Code Generator (No App Required)

#opensource #passwords #authentication

7 min read

xywa23

Nov 26

I Built a 'Sudo' Command for AI Agents (and Why You Need It)

#ai #python #opensource #security

4 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Nov 26

7 Open Source Tools I Discovered in 2025 That Feel Illegal to Know 🤫

#opensource #webdev #javascript #productivity

3 min read

Nov 26

Components structure in Umami codebase - Part 1.2

#umami #opensource #components #structure

3 min read

Nov 24

Update: More CIR PR's and Release 0.3

#cpp #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Sivaprasad Murali

Nov 24

Vargula: Terminal Styling with Color Theory & Accessibility Built In

#python #terminal #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Julian Li

Nov 25

New repository engagements page on trendshift.io

#github #opensource #developer #webdev

2 min read

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