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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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Apr 16

Stop Rebuilding Your Claude Code Setup - Scaffold It Once with Worclaude

#claudecode #claude #ai #opensource

2 min read

Apr 18

I Built a Free Image Compressor Using Next.js (No Signup Required)

#webdev #nextjs #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Apr 7

How to Monetize an Open Source Project: Freemium, Open Core, and License Gating

#opensource #startup #indiehacker #webdev

4 min read

Mar 19

I built a Claude Code plugin that auto-names your conversations

#claude #opensource #javascript #ai

1 min read

Mar 28

"The Agent Didn't Decide Wrong. The Instructions Were Conflicting — and Nobody Noticed."

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

5 min read

Mar 14

I Published a Python Package in 2019. Revisiting It in 2026 Reminded Me of Something

#python #opensource #programming #development

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 17

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28

GitHub Spec Kit Is 80% Right — Here's the Missing 20% That Would Make It Transformative

#ai #github #softwaredevelopment #opensource

7 min read

Oarcom

Mar 14

I Used a Newsroom Privacy Tool to Audit 100+ Adult Sites. Here's How the Stack Works.

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

6 min read

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

Darlington Mbawike

Apr 17

Your Next To-Do App Is Dead — I Replaced Mine with an OpenClaw AI

#opensource #devchallenge #webdev #openclawchallenge

3 min read

Mar 14

Why Django Needs Convention Over Configuration (And How DJX Fixes It)

#webdev #python #django #opensource

2 min read

Apr 6

NEXUS Ecosystem: I built a modular Docker management ecosystem in my spare time

#docker #opensource #nexus #devops

2 min read

Apr 17

Buyer's Guide to Pick the Best LLM Gateway in 2026

#ai #programming #opensource #devops

5 min read

devpulseai

Mar 14

I built an AI code reviewer solo for 3 months. Here's what I learned and why I'm open sourcing it.

#webdev #ai #opensource #django

2 min read

TNDrApi

Mar 14

How to access EU & French public tenders via API (free, no auth required)

#api #python #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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