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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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Urban

Mar 21

OpenHabitTracker is more user friendly now with better UI

#opensource #productivity #privacy #habittracking

2 min read

Adarsh Chaudhary

Mar 26

I built a zero-dependency Groq API wrapper for Node.js — simple-groq

#node #javascript #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Franco Caballero

Apr 14

ubigeo-fns: Librería TypeScript para UBIGEO del Perú

#typescript #node #javascript #opensource

2 min read

NocoBase

Mar 22

NocoBase 2.0 Beginner Tutorial - Chapter 3: Building Pages

#ai #opensource #nocode #tutorial

11 min read

Mar 22

How I Built a Local-First Movie Library Manager in Python

#showdev #python #opensource #beginners

3 min read

NILE GREEN

Apr 14

TCI Toolkit: Real-time stability metric + live dashboard for persistent LLM agents

#ai #opensource #llm #agents

1 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Mar 26

8 Best Free & Open Source Log Management Tools (2026)

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tooling

13 min read

Mar 21

AI Agent Tools Have No Permission Model. Here's an Open Standard to Fix It.

#ai #security #python #opensource

5 min read

Mar 21

uignore — a .gitignore for AI coding tools

#ai #security #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Apr 4

Why I Build Free Developer Tools for Emerging Markets — And Why You Should Toowebdev

#opensource #webdev

2 min read

Naman vyas

Apr 22

Built Gova, a declarative GUI framework for Go

#showdev #go #programming #opensource

3 min read

Sid Padmanabhuni

Mar 22

I Built an Open-Source Security Gateway for MCP Because the Ecosystem Desperately Needs One

#mcp #security #react #opensource

2 min read

vnatco

Mar 21

Feedback needed for my 12yo project that I completely re-wrote this year.

#webdev #javascript #devops #opensource

2 min read

Tijmen de Jong 💻🚀

Mar 21

THE PIXEL OFFICE .AI (GRIND)

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

x1m4x

Mar 21

I Built an E2EE Proxy So LLM Providers Can't Read My Prompts

#opensource #ai #security #privacy

3 min read

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