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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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live ASMR

Dec 12 '25

I built a privacy-first AI text splitter because LLM token limits kept reducing.

#ai #productivity #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Mark

Jan 16

Multi-agent coding pipeline: Claude Code + Codex collaborate for higher accuracy and reliable deliverables [Open Source]

#agents #ai #codequality #opensource

2 min read

Navneet Singh Rajput

Dec 11 '25

ScreenUI Is Now Live A Modern UI Library + CLI for Next.js, React & Tailwind

#react #opensource #typescript #javascript

1 min read

Tigran Bayburtsyan

Jan 3

How I stopped fighting AI and started shipping features 10x faster with Claude Code and Codex

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

8 min read

Jan 15

Integrating TON blockchain into Trust Wallet: a case study

#blockchain #opensource #software #cryptocurrency

5 min read

epubgratis

Dec 12 '25

Descubre Bluestar Linux: Un Sistema Operativo Versátil

#archlinux #linux #opensource

1 min read

Qwerty

Jan 14

Delightful TypeScript Mock Generator - Generate Realistic Test Data from Your Interfaces

#typescript #webdev #testing #opensource

4 min read

John Napiorkowski

Dec 15 '25

PAGI::Server Performance and Hardening

#showdev #testing #performance #opensource

2 min read

Jan 13

AI Slop Detector v2.6.1 Self-Audit: I planted 3 bad files — did it catch them?

#opensource #aicode #nocode #softwareengineering

3 min read

Göktürk Çetin

Dec 15 '25

I Built a "Smart" Bulk Cleaner for YouTube Music (Open Source & Multi-Language) 🚀

#javascript #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

canonical

Dec 12 '25

Why the Nop Platform Is a One-of-a-Kind Open Source Software Development Platform

#programming #architecture #nop #opensource

12 min read

Jan 15

AI Slop Detector v2.6.2: Integration Test Evidence (because “green CI” can still be hollow)

#python #opensource #testing #devops

2 min read

Zied

Dec 11 '25

TLS-Chameleon

#tooling #security #opensource #python

3 min read

Dmitry Labintcev

Jan 3

IMMUNE: Building an EDR/XDR/MDR Security Platform in Pure C — Solo Dev Progress

#security #c #opensource #dragonflybsd

3 min read

Kaic Bento

Dec 11 '25

I turned my personal Windows setup script into a public tool - and it’s now open source

#productivity #opensource #tooling #microsoft

3 min read

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