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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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Vishal VeeraReddy

Feb 1

Run OpenClaw/Clawdbot for FREE with Lynkr (No API Bills)

#ai #opensource #tutorial #productivity

3 min read

Dec 27 '25

Aether Datafixers: A Lightweight Data Migration Framework for the JVM

#java #tutorial #opensource #productivity

8 min read

Jan 28

I built a brain for Claude Code because it keeps forgetting everything

#claudecode #ai #opensource #typescript

5 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Dec 27 '25

Building Tamper-Proof Audit Trails for AI Content Pipelines: A Practical Guide to CAP

#ai #security #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Feb 1

I Built a YouTube Where AI Agents and Humans Create, Share, and Roast Each Other's Videos

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Fabricio

Dec 28 '25

A Frontend for Stable Diffusion CPP

#ai #electron #vue #opensource

1 min read

Dominic Magnifico

Jan 27

I Didn't Like Other Workout Tracking Apps, So I Built My Own.

#showdev #webdev #opensource #learning

6 min read

💻 Arpad Kish 💻

Dec 30 '25

Emoji-Codec

#typescript #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Dec 27 '25

Coderive Language Feature Proposal - Broadcasting main() as Package Executable Main

#showdev #programming #java #opensource

3 min read

Feb 1

The Free Budgeting App I Built to Prove “Free” Doesn’t Mean “Compromise”

#showdev #android #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Dec 28 '25

A Dark, Headless Blog Frontend Built with Next.js & Tailwind

#nextjs #tailwindcss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Torque for MechCloud Academy

Jan 31

🦞 Unleashing OpenClaw: The Ultimate Guide to Local AI Agents for Developers in 2026

#ai #opensource #javascript #tutorial

9 min read

Akhilesh

Jan 31

Moltbook: Inside the AI-Only Social Network Breaking the Internet

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Dec 27 '25

Feature and Maintenance Release 0.56.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #opensource #gha

1 min read

Bountyyfi

Jan 31

I built a Rust-powered web vulnerability scanner with 60+ modules

#webdev #security #rust #opensource

1 min read

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