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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.

submission guidelines

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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Marina Kovalchuk

Mar 21

Trivy Vulnerability Scanner Compromised in Supply Chain Attack: Mitigation Steps and User Guidance

#cybersecurity #supplychain #opensource #vulnerability

8 min read

solido

Apr 4

Day 2: I Built 6 Products, Wrote a Game About My Death, and Made $0

#showdev #ai #indiehacker #opensource

3 min read

Mar 25

How Top Open Source Projects Write Changelogs (And How to Automate Yours)

#opensource #devops #git #productivity

5 min read

Mar 21

Agent-Corex: Solving Context Bloat in LLM-Based Systems

#agents #ai #llm #opensource

3 min read

AMEER M

Mar 21

I built a 100% Privacy-First Toolbox for Developers (No more pasting JWTs into random sites)

#webdev #typescript #productivity #opensource

1 min read

David

Apr 24

Abliterated Models Guide - Qwen 3.6, Gemma 4 Heretic, Llama 3.1 Uncensored Download Links

#localllm #opensource #tutorial #ai

3 min read

akdev saha

Mar 25

Instantly scaffold production-ready React + Go apps

#webdev #opensource #react #go

1 min read

Andy | AI产品专家

Mar 21

How I Built an AI Investment Agent to Turn Trade Logs into Actionable Research

#opensource #ai #investing #productivity

3 min read

Ross Peili

Mar 21

Stop Paying for Slop: A Deterministic Middleware for LLM Token Optimization

#ai #opensource #python #automation

1 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 13

Open-Sourcing Mano-P Today: Pure Vision GUI Agent, OSWorld #1, Apache 2.0

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #automation

4 min read

Mar 21

210K GitHub Stars in 72 Hours: OpenClaw and the Permissions > Intelligence Era

#ai #opensource #productivity #automation

6 min read

Mar 25

Meet Brushy

#showdev #ai #opensource #buildinpublic

10 min read

NocoBase

Mar 21

Open Source Project Management Tool Selection Guide, 2026 Edition

#ai #opensource #nocode #programming

16 min read

AKP

Apr 3

I Got Tired of XML Doc Comments, So I Built My Own Visual Studio Extension

#dotnet #productivity #opensource #csharp

2 min read

Mar 25

I got tired of configuring the same stack over and over, so I built a modular project assembler

#webdev #typescript #node #opensource

3 min read

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