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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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Mohamed Shams El-Deen

Jun 17

Beyond Missing Exports: Building an Early Garbage Collector for Webpack’s TypeDoc AST

#javascript #opensource #webpack #software

4 min read

Jun 17

Why your YouTube transcript scraper started returning empty strings (and how to fix it in 2026)

#ai #python #webdev #opensource

3 min read

崔小涣

Jun 13

I spent $788 on an AI coding agent in one day. Here's the breakdown.

#ai #llm #productivity #opensource

2 min read

chowyu

Jun 13

How AIClaw Keeps Agent Plans Out of Chat History with Runtime Plan State

#ai #opensource #webdev #agents

4 min read

CodeClipr

Jun 13

I built a VS Code extension to stop wasting time copy-pasting code into AI

#vscode #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

hekman316

Jun 13

I stopped trusting Claude's code reviews, so I built a skill that puts my code on trial

#ai #claude #codereview #opensource

2 min read

Nishant K

Jun 13

Building a Global Career Opportunity Simulator Using World Bank and ESCO Data

#ai #webdev #opensource #career

3 min read

george

Jun 13

AI Agent Skills Are Everywhere. But Which Ones Are Safe to Install?

#ai #opensource #security #githubactions

2 min read

WonderLab

Jun 13

Open Source Project of the Day (#94): MasterDnsVPN —— A Sharpened Blade Against Censorship: The Highly Optimized DNS Tunneling VPN

#opensource #dns #vpn #network

3 min read

Valentin

Jun 17

How to Build Complex Rich Messages for Telegram Bots (TypeScript)

#javascript #opensource #typescript #telegram

3 min read

Jun 17

Stop Dumping Your Entire Repository Into AI

#ai #claude #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jun 13

Zero Trust for Home Labs: Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise and Enthusiast

#security #linux #opensource #ids

7 min read

Ken Ahrens

Jun 17

Twenty years of Linux, and now I run my own AI

#ai #opensource #localai #applesilicon

5 min read

Ian Taylor

Jun 13

How I Built an AI Journalist Discovery Engine with Octoparse MCP

#ai #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Mikael

Jun 13

Your agent finished at 3 a.m. Where did the report go?

#ai #opensource #selfhosted #tutorial

4 min read

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