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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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Sebastian Cabarcas

Mar 31

Why I Built a Redis-Backed Alternative to Spatie Permissions

#laravel #php #redis #opensource

5 min read

Lightning Developer

Mar 31

Self-Hosted AI for Developers: Best Coding LLMs in 2026

#webdev #ai #pinggy #opensource

4 min read

Mar 31

InsightAgent — Turn Any CSV Into AI-Powered Stories

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

rollsmorr

Feb 25

Introducing me.txt

#opensource #ai #webdev #devtools

3 min read

Feb 26

We built an AI-powered "Time Traveler" to find API keys leaked in your Git history. Meet LeakHunterX.

#showdev #security #opensource #ai

2 min read

Feb 25

Agent Skills: Portable AI Capabilities

#ai #agents #opensource

1 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 25

🇹🇼 台灣 devs: Add 身分證字號 to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇬🇭 Ghana devs: Add Ghana Card (NIA) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Mar 31

Building a LEGO-like remote Agent - Jean2

#ai #opensource #vibecoding

3 min read

Mar 11

Looking for Beginner-Friendly Open Source Projects

#opensource #ai #programming #beginners

1 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 25

🇳🇿 New Zealand devs: Add IRD Number to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Varun T

Mar 31

The Week Seven Wall: Why AI Coding Starts Great and Then Quietly Breaks Your Architecture

#ai #mcp #opensource

2 min read

samuelfatzinger

Mar 31

The UX of README Files

#technicalwriting #documentation #opensource #ux

5 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇿🇦 South Africa devs: Add South African ID Number to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 25

🇧🇩 Bangladesh devs: Add National ID Card (NID) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

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