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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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Bartosz Michalak for Momentum

Nov 6 '25

Apple Health MCP Server: Use Cases for Developers

#mcp #apple #opensource #ai

3 min read

Michael Etokakpan

Oct 2 '25

How I Stopped Manually Checking WooCommerce Stock Levels (and Finally Slept Better)

#woocommerce #wordpress #opensource #programming

2 min read

Danilo Poccia for AWS

Oct 31 '25

Never Forget a Thing: Building AI Agents with Hybrid Memory Using Strands Agents

#ai #aws #opensource #python

10 min read

Oct 24 '25

BoltJS: pure JavaScript, components, and zero compilation

#javascript #webdev #frontend #opensource

3 min read

IAM VAAR

Oct 1 '25

I built an opensource Android AI automation agent

#ai #android #opensource #programming

3 min read

Nov 4 '25

The Real State of Helm Chart Reliability (2025): Hidden Risks in 100+ Open‑Source Charts

#kubernetes #reliability #sre #opensource

23 min read

Ben

Oct 2 '25

New Open Source Project Opened

#discuss #opensource #ai #tooling

1 min read

Nov 4 '25

Nitro V3 is Here

#webdev #typescript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Konstantinos Passadis | Azure MVP | MCT

Oct 14 '25

Orbit v0.3.0 - Next-Generation Version Control System

#vcs #orb #rust #opensource

5 min read

Nov 4 '25

Revamping the Organization Dashboard for OWASP BLT: My GSoC 2025 Journey

#opensource #security #webdev

4 min read

Nov 5 '25

Create Custom Business Software in Two Hours and Free of Charge: Ditching the Buy-vs-Build Dilemma

#opensource #php #software

10 min read

jiil

Oct 5 '25

🚀 I Replaced Go’s Scheduler — And You Should Too (Here’s How)

#programming #go #opensource #codenewbie

4 min read

Oct 29 '25

5 must know open-source repositories to build cool AI apps

#ai #opensource #agents #vision

4 min read

Sumedhvats

Nov 3 '25

Production-Ready Rate Limiter in Go: From Side Project to Distributed System

#systemdesign #algorithms #opensource #go

7 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 4 '25

Building LAW-T: The First AI-Native Programming Language

#hacktoberfest #ai #opensource #javascript

10 min read

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