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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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Feb 25

I Banned Humans from My Dating Platform. The AI Agents Write Better Love Letters.

#showdev #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mack

Feb 21

Generate GDPR Privacy Policies in 60 Seconds (No Lawyer Needed)

#webdev #startup #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Feb 25

We're Sponsoring Open Source Projects with Free AI Code Reviews (and Up to $200/mo in Credits)

#ai #opensource #codereview #agents

4 min read

Feb 21

Connecting Gravity Forms to n8n Using Webhooks (Step-by-Step)

#automation #opensource #tutorial #wordpress

2 min read

Feb 25

I Banned Humans from My Dating Platform. The AI Agents Write Better Love Letters.

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Cyber

Feb 21

My Top 5 Self-Hosted Tools Running on My Home Server via Docker (Part 2)

#selfhosting #docker #opensource

4 min read

Mack

Feb 21

Why I Built a Privacy-First Image Converter (No Uploads, No Backend)

#webdev #javascript #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Craig Mac

Mar 14

How API Data Bloat is Ruining Your AI Agents (And How I Cut Token Usage by 98% in Python)

#python #ai #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

Mar 27

K501 - Evolution Is Not Progress — It Is Stabilization Under Increasing Complexity

#ai #programming #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Feb 21

OpenClaw for SRE: Self-Hosted AI Agents That Actually Respond to Incidents

#devops #sre #opensource #monitoring

6 min read

Mar 16

50 Free Resources Every Developer Should Know About in 2026

#resources #developers #tooling #opensource

23 min read

Mack

Feb 21

I Built a Free Trading Journal That Runs Entirely in Your Browser

#webdev #javascript #trading #opensource

2 min read

Mack

Feb 21

I Built 16 Free Dev Tools in a Week — Here's What I Learned

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 27

NocoBase 2.0 Beginner Tutorial - Chapter 6: Workflows

#ai #opensource #nocode #tutorial

13 min read

Feb 21

Beyond Words: Building an AI Stress Detector with Wav2Vec 2.0 and PyTorch

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

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