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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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Lucas

Mar 19

O que é OpenViking? Guia Completo e Detalhes

#agents #ai #database #opensource

11 min read

abdu masah

Apr 21

4x Faster Redshift Reads With One Line of Python

#python #aws #dataengineering #opensource

3 min read

Sebastian Petrus

Mar 19

OpenViking là gì?

#agents #ai #database #opensource

17 min read

Ajit for AWS Community Builders

Apr 1

How I Track 44 New AWS Repos Per Week Automatically with EventBridge, Bedrock, and FAISS

#aws #serverless #ai #opensource

3 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Apr 21

Challenge : 4 System-Level Challenges in Developer Experience (DevEx) Design

#opensource #ux #devex #devrel

9 min read

Peter Nasarah Dashe

Apr 11

250 Clones in 4 Days! Thank You 🙌

#showdev #opensource #feedback #productivity

1 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 22

Kiwi-chan Devlog #007: The Chest & The Logs - A Tale of Repeated Failures (and Fixes!)

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Anvar Khaliulin

Apr 1

Aru Ai Nauryz Updates 2026

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

10 min read

Wei Zhang

Mar 23

ClawHub Just Changed Its Search Algorithm — Here's What I Found in the Source Code

#showdev #openclaw #opensource #ai

4 min read

raigo mets

Apr 11

How I Built a Fraud Detection API That Catches Antidetect Browsers

#security #webdev #api #opensource

2 min read

Mar 18

EqhoPass: Why I Built a Password Manager for Developers

#showdev #security #cli #opensource

4 min read

Mar 19

Posthog Vs Plausible

#analytics #opensource #privacy #tooling

5 min read

Mastering Linux

Mar 20

PortPulse: Real-Time Linux Network Visibility with Rust + eBPF

#linux #rust #networking #opensource

1 min read

Apr 1

I built a Claude Code skill that strips AI slop from writing and adds soul back in

#claudecode #ai #writing #opensource

2 min read

Chris King

Mar 23

Why I Built a Distributed SQLite on S3 (And Why You Might Care)

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

2 min read

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