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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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Feb 16

Why I Rewrote My Email Editor from Scratch: From Blocks to Atoms Rewrite

#opensource #vue #webdev #email

3 min read

Vit

Jan 13

Google Maps API Alternative for Geocoding in 2026 with calcs

#showdev #api #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Sam March

Feb 17

1.4.0: Authentication and local storage

#opensource #devops #browser

2 min read

Jan 13

Linux Is Not User-Friendly — And That’s Exactly Why I Use It

#linux #opensource #productivity #career

3 min read

Jaeil Woo

Jan 11

Building a "Remembering" AI Trading Agent with Python, LangGraph, and Obsidian

#opensource #python #machinelearning #ai

2 min read

Yvonne

Feb 17

How to Change Directory Permissions in Linux (and Why It Matters)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #rhcsa

2 min read

ecap0

Feb 16

The State of MCP Server Security in 2026 — 118 Findings Across 68 Packages

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Sebastian David

Feb 17

I'm tired of looking for free APIs And I put this together

#showdev #opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Adam Poulemanos

Jan 13

AI Killed One Open Source Business Model; Not Open Source

#discuss #programming #ai #opensource

5 min read

Jan 13

Carific.ai: Building an AI Resume Tailor with Multi-Step Agents - Vercel AI SDK 6 and ToolLoopAgent

#ai #nextjs #typescript #opensource

11 min read

Alister Baroi for Tigera Inc

Apr 2

From IPVS to NFTables: A Migration Guide for Kubernetes v1.35

#technicalblog #bestpractices #howto #opensource

5 min read

Jan 13

RAGGuard: Filter During Vector Search, Not After Retrieval

#python #ai #security #opensource

1 min read

Feb 16

The GitHub Copilot SDK: Agents for Every App

#github #ai #devex #opensource

8 min read

Feb 16

How a Small OSINT Team Turned the Epstein Files Dump Into Actionable Intelligence

#ai #productivity #opensource #security

5 min read

ArkForge

Feb 16

EU AI Act 2026: What I Learned Reading the Full Regulation

#ai #compliance #euaiact #opensource

5 min read

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