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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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Yanko Alexandrov

Feb 10

I Built a Full Voice Pipeline on a €399 Edge AI Box (Whisper + Kokoro on Tensor Cores)

#ai #nvidia #opensource #edgecomputing

2 min read

Jan 6

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: December 30, 2025 – January 5, 2026

#news #database #dataengineering #opensource

4 min read

Jan 6

🚀 Free Open-Source AI-Powered Chrome Extension for Summarizing Web Content

#ai #opensource #webdev #react

1 min read

Christopher Hildebrand

Jan 5

I built a physics engine where gravity is just a floating-point budget error

#python #simulation #algorithms #opensource

2 min read

Jan 30

I Found One Interesting Open Source GitHub Gem 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Seryl Lns

Feb 10

Building a Rails Engine #1 — Why Build a Data Import Engine?

#ruby #rails #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Feb 8

QHexView 5.1 Release (and a little bit of history)

#showdev #cpp #qt #opensource

2 min read

Feb 10

Top 5 MCP Gateways for Building Production AI Agents

#ai #programming #openai #opensource

4 min read

Feb 10

Securing Claude Code with Pipelock

#devops #security #ai #opensource

4 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 6

We Open-Sourced a Cryptographic Audit Trail for FIX Trading — Here's How to Verify It

#fix #fintech #opensource

5 min read

Feb 10

How We Added Automatic Transcription With whisper.cpp

#whisper #go #docker #opensource

5 min read

Jan 7

VSCode custom code snippets in Inbox Zero codebase.

#opensource #vscode #codesnippet #typescript

4 min read

Harish Kotra (he/him)

Jan 7

Build Your Own Local AI Agent (Part 3): The Code Archaeologist 🔦

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

1 min read

KAILAS VS

Feb 10

OpenAI Codex Explained: Workflow, Use Cases, and Comparison with Other AI Coding Tools

#ai #opensource #coding #productivity

3 min read

Jan 7

10 Best AI Engineering GitHub Repos to Build Real Systems

#opensource #github #programming #ai

3 min read

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