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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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Mar 5

Stop Building API Dashboards From Scratch

#webdev #api #opensource #programming

3 min read

Mar 16

MiroFish: Simulating the Future, One Agent at a Time

#ai #agents #opensource #simulation

3 min read

$refractionray profile$

Feb 10

🚀 TensorCircuit-NG: The Universal, Differentiable Quantum Infrastructure

#quantum #ai #opensource #differentiable

3 min read

Mar 16

JSX That Outputs Markdown

#markdown #typescript #opensource #javascript

7 min read

Feb 10

I replaced a 200MB JVM process with a 52KB binary that speaks Kafka

#cpp #kafka #performance #opensource

7 min read

RS xxx

Feb 10

Black Hat Europe 2025 Arsenal: 8 AI Security Tools Transforming Cybersecurity

#news #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

6 min read

Feb 10

AlphaOfTech Daily Brief — 2026-02-10

#ai #security #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Feb 14

Converting Large JSON, NDJSON, CSV and XML Files without Blowing Up Memory

#javascript #datascience #node #opensource

4 min read

Mar 16

Why every RAG project I've built ends up fighting the pipeline — and what I'm doing about it

#rag #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

vanxxx

Feb 10

I built a "Single Source of Truth" for OpenClaw: Docs, Troubleshooting, and a Skills Leaderboard

#showdev #ai #openclaw #opensource

1 min read

ckmtools

Mar 16

I Built an npm Package and Tracked Every Download for Two Weeks. Here's the Data.

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Parth M Kanpariya

Feb 10

I Tried the Viral OpenClaw AI Bot, This Is How I Run It Without Local Access

#ai #opensource #selfhosted #automation

3 min read

Raj Gupta

Feb 23

🌍 Lingo Canvas

#webdev #ai #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Lyra

Feb 10

Hardening the Chain: Automating OpenSSF Scorecard for Linux Security 🛡️

#linux #security #opensource #automation

2 min read

Feb 9

I Built a Black Hole Universe Simulator (Open Source, Seeking Collaborators)#python #opensource #physics #showdev

#showdev #opensource #python #science

2 min read

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