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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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Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇩🇰 Danmark devs: Add CPR-nummer to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇳🇴 Norge devs: Add Fødselsnummer to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇺🇦 Україна devs: Add ID-картка / Паспорт to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇸🇰 Slovensko devs: Add Rodné číslo / ID card to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇸🇪 Sverige devs: Add Personnummer to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Jakub

Mar 30

I was tired of next-themes being abandoned, so I built a drop-in replacement

#nextjs #react #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇳🇱 Nederland devs: Add BSN (Burgerservicenummer) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

howznguyen

Feb 24

AI Doesn’t Lack Intelligence. It Lacks Context.

#ai #programming #opensource #cli

3 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇬🇹 Guatemala devs: Add DPI (Documento Personal de Identificación) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Andrej

Mar 30

Claude CLI vs API for Code Review: Same Model, Wildly Different Results

#opensource #webdev #typescript #productivity

7 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 25

🇷🇴 România devs: Add CNP (Cod Numeric Personal) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Four-layer pyramid with pre-compact hooks

Serhii Kravchenko

Mar 27

How I Built a Memory System for Claude Code and Open-Sourced It

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

4 min read

GDS K S

Mar 30

5 open source auth libraries that actually handle AI agents (2026)

#ai #security #typescript #opensource

6 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇵🇦 Panamá devs: Add Cédula Personal to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇨🇷 Costa Rica devs: Add Cédula de Identidad to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

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