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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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James Derek Ingersoll

Mar 16

AI Doesn't Need Another Framework. It Needs an Operating System.

#linux #ai #infrastructure #opensource

7 min read

Pavitra

Mar 16

I Built a Tool That Lets You Contribute to Open Source in Any Language

#webdev #ai #nextjs #opensource

21 min read

Nic Luther

Mar 12

Building a Native Mac Unified Inbox with SwiftUI: Email, Slack & GitHub in One Window

#swiftui #macos #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 12

Temporal Inversion for MiroFish: Bayesian DAG Reversal in ~46ms (0 LLM calls)

#mirofish #opensource #python #ai

1 min read

Mar 12

How I Built Nucleon CLI: One Tool to Replace My Entire Development Workflow

#javascript #cli #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Khushboo Parmar

Mar 17

Accessibility Debt: The Hidden Technical Debt in Modern Web Applications

#ai #a11y #programming #opensource

1 min read

Mar 12

skills folder in shadcn/ui codebase - Part 1.0

#opensource #skills #ai #patterns

3 min read

Apr 3

I Hacked the JVM to Visualize Algorithms Without Touching the Source Code

#java #opensource #jvm #programming

4 min read

Lyra

Mar 12

Ditch `authorized_keys` Sprawl: SSH User Certificates with OpenSSH CA (Practical Linux Guide)

#linux #security #devops #opensource

4 min read

Cihan Koç

Mar 25

Top 5 Free Tailwind Component Libraries in 2026

#tailwindcss #react #opensource #webdev

4 min read

ckmtools

Mar 16

How I Got 6 GitHub Stars Without a Launch Event

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Mar 16

I built a mobile workstation for Claude Code with 35+ tools the official app doesn't have

#showdev #claudecode #opensource #android

2 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Mar 12

Your File Upload Endpoint Is Part of Your Attack Surface

#node #security #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Apr 15

We Parsed 580 AI Instruction Files. 96% of the Content Can't Be Verified.

#ai #programming #typescript #opensource

7 min read

Max

Apr 15

I built a VS Code extension to avoid messy Git merges (MergeGuard)

#vscode #git #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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