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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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Rupesh Bharambe

Apr 7

I Analyzed 26 ML Libraries and Found a Gap Nobody Fills - So I Built It

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

4 min read

Hylbert Rodrigues

May 9

I built a tool to generate academic PDFs from Markdown without installing LaTeX

#showdev #python #opensource #docker

6 min read

TimechoDB

Apr 7

Apache IoTDB for Intelligent Transportation — Architecture, Core Capabilities, and Industry Fit

#devops #opensource #database #performance

5 min read

Zihang Dong 董子航

May 11

I Built 58 Free Browser Tools With Zero Backend — Here's the Full Stack

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Apr 7

What I learned building a solo product

#showdev #buildinpublic #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Ayo

May 11

Datadog Alternatives for Small Teams (2026): An Honest Comparison from a Solo Dev

#datadog #monitoring #webdev #opensource

8 min read

Apr 8

Can open source outperform proprietary software?

#discuss #linux #opensource #software

4 min read

John Jeong

Apr 7

The Codebase Is No Longer a Moat

#opensource #ai #programming #webdev

3 min read

May 11

I Built a Minimal Tool to Instantly Share Text Between Devices

#writing #documentation #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Abhishek Chauhan

Apr 6

Your AI Agent Is Confidently Lying — And It's Your Memory System's Fault

#ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Vilius

May 4

Managing 150+ AI Agent Skills at Scale — What Broke, What I Built

#ai #python #opensource #sqlite

5 min read

Apr 7

Clai TALOS: The Self-Hosted AI Agent I Wish Existed

#ai #openclaw #opensource

4 min read

May 11

Why Modern IDEs Feel Slower Than They Should

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

ShadowStrike Labs

Apr 7

ShadowStrike Phantom: Open-Source EDR Platform

#cybersecurity #machinelearning #opensource #security

1 min read

Srinivasulu Paranduru for AWS Community Builders

Apr 8

Introduction to OpenTofu

#opensource #iac #opentofu

4 min read

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