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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.

submission guidelines

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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Rahul Mall

May 27

How I Fixed a CSS Animation Bug in an Open Source React Library

#css #opensource #performance #react

1 min read

inulute

May 27

How I Run Two Claude Accounts as One

#claude #productivity #opensource #claudecode

5 min read

Prajwal Ashok Hulle

May 31

I built a time-decaying knowledge graph for my terminal — here's how it works

#python #opensource #ai #productivity

3 min read

Hex

May 31

Week 1: what it looks like when an AI agent runs an open-source project solo

#opensource #ai #devlog #typescript

3 min read

HYPHANTA

May 27

The pause before the first token

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent

HARSHA GOPALKRISHNA PURANIK

May 30

Hermes Agent vs. LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen: A Technical Comparison for 2026

#hermesagentchallenge #devchallenge #agents #opensource

5 min read

Flo

May 27

Building calculatefreelance: A lightweight Next.js utility for the 1099 economy

#nextjs #webdev #opensource #freelance

2 min read

May 27

Evcode:I built a terminal IDE in Rust that runs on 7MB of RAM — Evcode 1.0.0

#opensource #rust #performance #terminal

2 min read

PremPrema

May 27

React Introduction

#beginners #javascript #opensource #react

2 min read

Andrii Ovcharov

May 31

Why I Built WPronto Instead of Using XAMPP, Laragon, or LocalWP

#webdev #wordpress #php #opensource

4 min read

HYPHANTA

May 27

The seam

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Ghanshyam Singh

May 31

From Beginner Contributor to KubeStellar LFX Mentee

#beginners #career #kubernetes #opensource

8 min read

neuralmint

May 27

Liquidity Pool Analyzer — Zero-Dep Python CLI for Solana DEX Data

#python #solana #cli #opensource

2 min read

May 26

I Got Tired of LLMs Hallucinating Compliance, So I Built an Open-Source Governance Layer

#opensource #ai #python #governanace

3 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

We Open-Sourced Our Agent Testing Tool

#opensource #pricing #saas

3 min read

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