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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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Francois Altwies

Mar 21

My First OSS Contribution as a Non-Developer: What I Learned and Why It Matters

#opensource #ai #github #productivity

2 min read

Luren L.

Mar 22

SkillsHub March 2026 Dev Log: BM25, Rate Limiting, and 5,900+ AI Agent Skills

#ai #opensource #webdev #devlog

3 min read

Jonathan David Forrider

Mar 22

I built a local-first AI CLI to replace Copilot (using Ollama)

#ai #cli #go #opensource

2 min read

Srini Ananthakrishnan

Mar 23

OpenObscure – open-source, on-device privacy firewall for AI agents

#rust #privacy #opensource #openclaw

2 min read

Otto

Mar 23

PocketBase: The Open-Source Firebase Alternative You Can Self-Host in 5 Minutes

#javascript #opensource #backend #node

3 min read

Mar 27

Contributing to the Agent Infrastructure Stack: 4 PRs Across 3 Repos in One Weekend

#opensource #mcp #bitcoin #agents

5 min read

Deek Roumy

Mar 23

The Expensify Bot Trap: What 6 Auto-Closed PRs Taught Me About Open Source

#automation #github #learning #opensource

3 min read

Apr 21

The Gap Andrej Karpathy Didn't Fill

#ai #opensource #rag #webdev

5 min read

Alan West

Apr 25

Google Analytics Alternatives: Umami vs Plausible vs Fathom in 2026

#analytics #privacy #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Tunaxia

Mar 22

Stop scrolling through the AWS SDK Changelog, I Built a Beautiful Dashboard for Messy Boto3 Changelogs

#aws #python #devops #opensource

2 min read

Damon

Mar 22

Payment Processing Fees Compared: Stripe vs Square vs PayPal vs Cash App (2026)

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 23

NocoBase 2.0 Beginner Tutorial - Chapter 4: Forms & Details

#ai #nocode #opensource #tutorial

12 min read

freerave

Mar 24

I Got Tired of Writing JSON Configs, So I Built a Visual UI Inside VS Code (DotCommand v2.0)

#vscode #javascript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Elizabeth Sobiya

Apr 5

I Paused My Open Source Project. It Wasn’t Laziness. It Was Imposter Syndrome.

#opensource #webdev #programming #productivity

3 min read

Deek Roumy

Mar 22

How to Use Opire to Find Unclaimed GitHub Bounties (With Real Data From 30 Live Bounties)

#api #github #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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