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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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Andrei Merlescu

Apr 30

Humanized Software Engineering In Era Of AI

#discuss #ai #career #opensource

9 min read

krisakma

Mar 28

I Built 3 Free Developer Tools as a Solo Dev — Here's What I Learned

#showdev #webdev #opensource #github

2 min read

Hemant Chilkuri

May 1

I Built a Zero-Config Project Health Analyzer — Just Run npx dev-lens in Any Repo

#opensource #node #cli #devtools

2 min read

Ananya for OWASP BLT

Apr 30

Accepted into GSoC 2026: From First PR to Official Selection

#gsoc2026 #summerofcode2026 #owasp #opensource

2 min read

jidonglab

Mar 28

Contributing to ContextZip: Good First Issues for Beginners

#opensource #beginners #rust #programming

2 min read

Sammit Pal

Mar 28

Building a Zero-Dependency Random String Generator for Node.js (With Secure Mode)

#node #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

May 1

I Built a Privacy-First Chrome Extension That Saves Your Forms Locally, Zero Network Requests

#chromeextension #javascript #privacy #opensource

4 min read

Antoine

Apr 19

Stop hardcoding API keys in your AI agents — how I built a governance layer in 3 weeks

#ai #security #opensource #nextjs

4 min read

Mrj

Mar 27

🛠️ Crompressor: Reality Compilation - Teaching Data Centers to Recognize Their Own Data - 🔒 -P2P FUSE file system reducing data payload to 20%

#programming #go #opensource #productivity

1 min read

UPinar

Mar 28

I hardened my Hetzner VPS from scratch — here's everything I did (and the tools I built along the way)

#security #linux #devops #opensource

4 min read

Boyu Du

Mar 28

Why I’m Building AgentFleet: From One Assistant to a Visible AI Team

#showdev #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 27

OIXA Protocol: The Open Infrastructure for Agent-to-Agent Commerce

#ai #agents #opensource #protocol

2 min read

Brian Shen

Mar 28

I built an open-source system to track how engineers actually adapt to AI

#opensource #ai #career #buildinpublic

2 min read

Jean-David Bonicel

Apr 17

I built a CLI that scaffolds complete multi-tenant SaaS apps

#opensource #react #java #webdev

3 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Mar 28

Crossplane: Extending Kubernetes to Manage Cloud Resources

#crossplane #cloudnative #opensource

6 min read

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