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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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mk668a

May 25

Your polyfills are dead. Here's a robot that buries them.

#javascript #webdev #opensource #github

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neuralmint

May 25

3 CLI Tools You Can Buy with Crypto — No KYC, No Subscriptions

#cli #python #opensource #productivity

2 min read

tokenmixai

May 25

Qwen 3.6 Has Four Tiers. Here's How to Route Without Burning Cash.

#ai #llm #python #opensource

9 min read

Agntable

May 25

Activepieces vs n8n: Which Open-Source Automation Tool Should You Use?

#ai #opensource #automation #aitool

8 min read

WonderLab

May 25

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 75): Understand Anything - The AI Engine That Turns Any Codebase Into an Explorable Knowledge Graph

#opensource #ai #claude #agents

6 min read

Syed Noor

May 25

The 6-Dimension Production-Readiness Checklist for n8n Workflows.

#devops #opensource #productivity #python

9 min read

May 25

I Built a Testing Tool That Analyzes Code Across 21 Dimensions — Here is Why

#testing #devops #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Praveen

May 25

AI provenance systems need one shared record contract

#ai #devops #opensource #automation

1 min read

redpa

May 25

Your Claude Code hooks probably fail open — here's why that's dangerous

#claude #opensource #ai #javascript

3 min read

May 25

Open-Sourcing Our Game AI Stack — SDKs, Templates, and CLI Tools for NPC Dialogue

#gamedev #opensource #ai #llm

3 min read

Joe C

May 29

Captain Caveman Claude

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

6 min read

keeper

May 25

Visualize Your AI-Written Code as an Interactive Knowledge Graph

#ai #devtools #opensource #productivity

1 min read

May 24

Audit AI-Generated PRs Before You Merge Them (Swarm Orchestrator 10.3.0)

#ai #opensource #githubactions #devops

4 min read

Anton Lem

May 24

The Java reordering tool I wanted for years, so I finally built it

#java #opensource #formatter #codequality

9 min read

Olajide Olamide

May 25

Debugging CodeIgniter Apps From Logs Alone Was Not Enough, So I Built DEX

#php #codeigniter #opensource #monitoring

4 min read

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