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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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Apr 4

LoreKit - AI That GMs Full TTRPG Campaigns

#opensource #python #ai #gamedev

4 min read

AgentGraph

Apr 7

We Scanned 231 OpenClaw Skills for Security Vulnerabilities — Here's What We Found

#security #ai #agents #opensource

6 min read

johnsmalls22-rgb

Mar 17

How I Track Every Ship in the Strait of Hormuz in Real Time

#webdev #opensource #javascript #tutorial

2 min read

Mar 8

Stop using magic strings in your Firestore .NET queries

#dotnet #firestore #opensource #csharp

2 min read

Mar 14

How I Built clsh: Phone-First Terminal Access to Your Mac

#webdev #react #terminal #opensource

7 min read

Mar 4

How OpenClaw Remembers: The Secret That Makes AI Assistants Actually Useful

#ai #automation #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Apr 6

Monday Grind Blueprint #2: 80 Processes Explained, 3 Issues Targeted, 1 Week to Ship

#python #opensource #buildinpublic #devops

7 min read

ithiria894

Apr 6

PokeClaw: The First Open-Source App That Controls Your Android Phone Offline

#showdev #android #ai #opensource

4 min read

Antoine Laurent

Apr 7

Meilleurs assistants de codage open source en 2026: Alternatives gratuites à Cursor

#ai #opensource #programming #tooling

12 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 3

I built a universal memory layer that works across every AI tool — here's how it works

#ai #python #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Apr 7

I formalized the human in the AI energy equation

#ai #llm #opensource #energy

5 min read

Apr 7

Same Instruction File, Same Score, Completely Different Failures

#ai #typescript #opensource #devops

4 min read

Mar 8

I Migrated a Real Production Codebase from Terraform to OpenTofu (Here's What Broke)

#terraform #opensource #devops #infrastructure

5 min read

Apr 3

Why I built a self-hosted centralized backup manager

#go #devops #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Apr 6

Middleware vs Sidecar: two ways to govern AI agents

#ai #security #opensource #mcp

5 min read

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