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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 2

I open sourced a production MLOps pipeline. Here is what it took to get it to PyPI and Hugging Face in one day.

#mlops #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Mar 13

Most grids are static. I built one that isn't.

#react #webdev #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Stephen McCullough

Apr 1

Maintaining Open Source in the AI Era

#opensource #ai #ruby #python

6 min read

Claude

Apr 1

I Built a Security Scanner Because 12% of an AI Agent Marketplace Was Malicious

#ai #security #python #opensource

5 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 27

Apache DolphinScheduler Task Failure Retry Mechanism: Intelligent Like Parcel Redelivery

#dolphinscheduler #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Adity Kushawaha

Apr 2

I Built CodeMap to Make Exploring Codebases Easier

#python #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Sui Gn

Feb 27

The Technicality Behind The Speed of .me

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Chris Yao

Apr 1

This CLI Rewrites Your AI Prompts — No LLM, No API, 50ms (Open Source)

#ai #python #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Nutthawit Lilawannasin

Apr 1

Configuring GPU Pass-Through for AMD cards on openSUSE Kalpa

#cli #linux #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 30

AI terminal tools in 2026: Warp, Lacy Shell, and the rest

#terminal #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 1

I Built an Open-Source Identity Verification Platform. Here's What I Learned.

#showdev #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

15 min read

Feb 27

BREAKING: Any Website Can Silently Hijack Your OpenClaw Agent (Oasis Security)

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Dennis Dam

Mar 3

I built a config-driven graph editor for Angular — here's what I learned

#angular #typescript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Feb 26

From HealthTech to Open Source: Building a sovereign web analytics engine in a single binary

#webdev #opensource #analytics #devops

3 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇹🇷 Türkiye devs: Add TC Kimlik Numarası to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

1 min read

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