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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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Mar 14

I Replaced a $200/mo Screenshot API With a Single Python File

#python #webdev #api #opensource

2 min read

7onic

Apr 17

Solo Builder #1: What Nobody Tells You

#solobuilder #designsystem #opensource #indiedev

5 min read

Mar 15

Rocket.Chat vs Zulip: Team Messaging Compared

#opensource #productivity #saas #software

4 min read

skrun

Apr 3

I had a bunch of Skills sitting in a folder. None of them were callable as APIs

#ai #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Dana Aus

Mar 14

I built a 'magnetic' file sharing CLI tool via QR Codes

#showdev #productivity #opensource #go

2 min read

Blaine

Mar 13

HuntOS: an automated job application tool; and my experience vibe coding

#ai #automation #vibecoding #opensource

7 min read

Art

Mar 27

Where Is My Website Calling Home? — Forge CMS 2026.3.27

#webdev #performance #go #opensource

4 min read

Eastkap

Mar 13

Your 2026 PTO Cheat Sheet: Exactly Which Days to Take Off

#productivity #career #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Apr 17

I spent 200 hours building the ultimate free AI resource list so you don't have to (2026)

#ai #freetools #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Max

Mar 14

The soul file

#ai #security #opensource #programming

3 min read

Mohammed Samrose

Apr 6

I Built a CLI to Scaffold Next.js Apps with Any Stack — No More Boilerplate Hell

#nextjs #cli #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Gekk

Mar 18

We built a payment network where AI agents pay each other autonomously — live demo

#webdev #ai #opensource #cryptocurrency

2 min read

cz

Apr 17

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Complete Review: Alibaba's Open-Source Coding Model That Beats Frontier Giants

#ai #opensource #coding #qwen

9 min read

Apr 17

Why Every AI Image Generator Fails at Text (And One That Finally Doesn't)

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

4 min read

InfraRely

Apr 17

Your AI Agent Didn’t Fail. Your Infrastructure Did.

#ai #opensource #devops

2 min read

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