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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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Mar 31

I built a free compliance scanner because the enterprise ones cost more than my rent

#security #opensource #devops #beginners

2 min read

Bobby

Mar 29

I Gave Claude Access to Data on All 54 African Countries. Here's How.

#mcp #ai #opensource #africa

3 min read

MORINAGA

May 2

Open-source AI I'm watching: DeepSeek V4, VibeVoice, and the n8n effect

#ai #opensource #indiehackers #machinelearning

4 min read

Apr 3

I built a self-evolving AI skill engine as a solo dev using 4 AI models

#ai #python #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Mar 30

I Built a Chrome Extension That Fact-Checks AI Outputs — Here's How It Works

#ai #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 30

Sprint 9: The Infrastructure Sprint Nobody Wanted But Everyone Needed

#ai #agile #devops #opensource

3 min read

Mar 29

How I Reimplemented LÖVE2D in Rust to Play Balatro in a Terminal

#showdev #rust #gamedev #opensource

3 min read

EmitHQ

Mar 29

Why We Built EmitHQ: The $49–$490 Webhook Pricing Gap

#webhooks #opensource #saas #architecture

5 min read

Alan West

May 2

How to Build and Run Microsoft's Newly Open-Sourced DOS Source Code

#opensource #assembly #retrocomputing #beginners

5 min read

Mar 29

Ageless Linux Is the Most Beautifully Petty Protest Against California's War on Open Source

#linux #opensource #privacy #law

4 min read

Christian Alexander Nonis

Mar 29

From RAG to a “memory layer”: what building an AI assistant taught us

#ai #machinelearning #rag #opensource

3 min read

Mar 29

💥 I Was Tired of Boring UIs, So I Built a CSS Framework Straight Out of a 1962 Comic Book

#showdev #css #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Apr 2

Why Your React Data Tables Are a Bloated Mess (And How to Automate Them)

#react #typescript #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Vinh Nguyen for Stewie

Mar 29

AI agent context still misses the product layer

#ai #llm #agents #opensource

5 min read

Apr 29

94% of Published SKILL.md Files Skip the Spec's Two Most Basic Patterns

#ai #opensource #claude #devops

7 min read

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