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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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Mar 3

I Audited My Blog with a Free SEO Checker — Here's Every Check It Runs (and Why They Matter)

#seo #webdev #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Feb 26

I built a zero-knowledge secret sharing tool because I was tired of passwords in Slack

#webdev #security #nextjs #opensource

5 min read

Adarsh Balanolla

Feb 26

7 AI Agents, One Command, 50% Cheaper Claude Code.

#ai #opensource #agents #programming

4 min read

Apr 1

I scanned 8 popular npm projects for quantum-vulnerable cryptography. Here's what I found.

#security #javascript #opensource #node

4 min read

Mariusz Gębala

Apr 1

5 Open-Source AWS Security CLI Tools Worth Trying in 2026

#aws #security #opensource #devops

7 min read

Feb 27

Malwarebytes Calls OpenClaw 'An Over-Eager Intern' — Here's What To Do About It

#security #ai #devops #opensource

2 min read

Feb 26

Blazor Developer Tools Beta 1: It Finally Talks to the Renderer

#blazor #dotnet #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Feb 27

40,000 Exposed OpenClaw Instances — and 6 New CVEs This Week

#security #ai #opensource #devops

3 min read

Feb 26

I Built a Tool That Feeds AI Assistants Real Big-O Analysis Instead of Letting Them Guess

#ai #mcp #opensource #programming

3 min read

Apr 1

Show HN: AgentLens – Chrome DevTools for AI Agents (open-source, self-hosted)

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

1 min read

nJ

Apr 1

I built a zero-dependency CSS library with 9 built-in themes — here's why

#showdev #css #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Apr 1

How to Connect Non-Anthropic Models to Claude Code with Bifrost AI Gateway

#claudecode #llm #opensource #ai

5 min read

Dev Khant

Mar 2

OpenAlerts - Monitoring layer for Agentic frameworks

#ai #opensource #github #programming

2 min read

OpenClawResource

Apr 1

What is OpenClaw? Your AI Agent in the Machine

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

1 min read

Agustin Montoya

Feb 26

Your AI Agents Don’t Share Memory. That’s the Problem.

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

4 min read

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