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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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Gábor Mészáros

Jan 27

CLAUDE.md: Check, Score, Improve & Repeat

#claudecode #productivity #opensource #devtool

3 min read

Garyvov

Jan 5

Qwen Image 2512 Workflow: Complete Guide to AI Image Generation in 2026

#ai #deeplearning #opensource #tutorial

11 min read

Polliog

Jan 15

Logtide: 2 Months After Launch (The Real Numbers)

#opensource #startup #programming #webdev

5 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Jan 27

How to Deploy to AWS in 2026

#aws #node #opensource #cloud

6 min read

Sivaram

Jan 27

I Built a Solana Waitlist for a Fake $10k Bounty - Here's the Open Source Code

#solana #waitlist #web3 #opensource

4 min read

Sivaram

Jan 26

Clawdbot: The AI Assistant That's Breaking the Internet

#productivity #ai #clawd #opensource

5 min read

Jan 16

Just open sourced a dating platform under a custom OSI-compatible license (CPL-1.0) — would love feedback on the license itself

#opensource #webassembly #pwa

2 min read

rx76d

Dec 23 '25

Speedrun your AI coding workflow.⚡️

#ai #productivity #opensource #npm

1 min read

Mike

Jan 27

🦆 Stop Copy-Pasting Between AI Tabs — Use MCP Rubber Duck Instead

#ai #mcp #opensource #llm

6 min read

Jan 27

XState, a state machine for status detection.

#opensource #xstate #typescript #claude

3 min read

The Living Algorithms

Dec 27 '25

I stopped reading code and started mapping it (and it saved my sanity)

#vscode #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 27

Why PostgreSQL RLS Is Hard in Spring Boot and How I Simplified It

#postgres #springboot #opensource #jpa

2 min read

Jan 16

Security best practices in Umami codebase - part 1.1

#security #umami #opensource #authentication

4 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 27 '25

Day 35 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Dmitry Labintcev

Jan 5

4 Days, 18,599 Lines: What Happens When You Go All-In on Pure C

#c #security #ai #opensource

5 min read

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