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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 14

How I Automated My Blender Game Asset Pipeline with Custom Python Addons

#blender #gamedev #python #opensource

3 min read

tessoir

Apr 5

KVerify: A Two-Year Journey to Get Validation Right

#showdev #kotlin #validation #opensource

11 min read

Apr 16

Wednesday Code Autopsy #4: The Canvas Arc Nobody Uses - PC Workman

#python #buildinpublic #opensource #github

5 min read

Apr 5

How Claude Code + Specialized Agents Changed My Development Workflow in 2026

#claudecode #ai #devops #opensource

3 min read

Neeraj Kumar for Hyperswitch

Apr 16

Prism: A stateless payment integration library extracted from 4 years of production

#showdev #api #opensource #rust

10 min read

Mar 13

We Scanned 39 AI Agent Frameworks Against OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 -- Here Are The Results

#webdev #security #ai #opensource

2 min read

hyhmrright

Apr 16

Show DEV: brooks-lint — an AI code reviewer that cites Fowler, Martin, and Brooks

#opensource #ai #codequality #tooling

4 min read

olko

Apr 16

queryd: driver-agnostic slow query detection for Node.js (optional Prisma)

#postgres #prisma #monitoring #opensource

2 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 16

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Apr 16

Building MCP servers for a country that isn't in the dataset (Czech gov APIs)

#showdev #mcp #ai #opensource

6 min read

Şahin Uygutalp

Mar 26

I Built a GitHub Action to Stop AI-Generated PRs Before They Reach My Queue

#opensource #ai #github #security

3 min read

Mar 13

Vikunja vs Todoist: Self-Hosted Task Management

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

3 min read

Steven Jieli Wu

Apr 16

Field Notes from a Solo Builder — Shipping the Beloved Claude Code Buddy Into the Wild - Part I

#claudecode #ai #opensource #aipet

3 min read

Matthew Diakonov

Mar 17

What We Learned Building a macOS AI Agent in Swift (ScreenCaptureKit, Accessibility APIs, Async Pipelines)

#swift #macos #ai #opensource

4 min read

Anthony Johnson II

Apr 16

Why Semantic Layers Need Distributional Validation, Not Just Schema Validation

#dataquality #semanticlayer #dataengineering #opensource

9 min read

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