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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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nasuy

Mar 24

"The human might be asleep." One line in Karpathy's program.md started 100 automatic experiments per night.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #agents

4 min read

Max Kurz

Mar 4

Running Headless Chrome at Scale: Production Lessons from Millions of Renders.

#javascript #go #opensource

12 min read

Meghna Meghwani for ServerAvatar

Feb 23

Laravel for Beginners: Easy Explanation You Can Understand

#laravel #php #programming #opensource

4 min read

Mar 13

Skill-Driven Development: Transferring your Craft to AI Agents

#ai #automation #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Srirajasekhar Koritala

Feb 18

The Missing Piece in Every AI Agent Framework: Humans

#ai #agents #opensource #python

7 min read

Mar 24

20 Free Security APIs Every Developer Should Know About (2026)

#security #api #python #opensource

3 min read

Unicorn Developer

Mar 13

Is OpenBSD...exotic? Community member's perspective

#openbsd #opensource #interview #unix

8 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 24

Rotifer v0.7.7-v0.7.8: Alignment + Test Fortification

#ai #testing #security #opensource

4 min read

Feb 18

The packaging bugs I kept shipping (and the tool I built to stop)

#typescript #npm #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Louis Weston for Distr

Feb 17

Alerts for self-hosted customer deployments

#devops #opensource #containers #automation

2 min read

Seryl Lns

Mar 24

Building a Rails Engine #13 -- How to test a mountable Rails engine without a dummy app

#ruby #rails #opensource #testing

12 min read

Techfred

Feb 18

OrcBot: Building an Autonomous AI Agent That Actually Works in Production

#ai #node #typescript #opensource

6 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 24

Rotifer v0.7.9: Trust Shield

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Mar 24

Email.md Converts Markdown to Responsive Email HTML — And It Actually Works

#discuss #webdev #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Feb 18

I built an AI memory API with 3 memory types — here's why facts alone aren't enough published

#ai #opensource #python #javascript

4 min read

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