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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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longshixu

Mar 13

How to Export a Web Page as a Vector PDF — Introducing dom-to-vector-pdf

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Ojaswa

Mar 12

I Found Buried Treasure in a Bug-Hunting Tool — My Road to GSoC 2026 with OWASP BLT

#opensource #owasp #learning

5 min read

Mar 12

Building Departure Records for AI Agents

#ai #security #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Nicholas Blanchard

Apr 15

I Built an LLM Gateway That Learns Which Model to Use — Here's How the Routing Works

#ai #aiops #llm #opensource

5 min read

Mar 13

We organized 8,697 n8n workflow templates into a browsable GitHub repo

#automation #opensource #workflow #webdev

2 min read

Mar 12

Why AI Agents Need Passport Stamps

#ai #security #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Abi

Mar 17

Second Bridge — open-source community resource directory. Early alpha, MIT licensed. Looking for feedback and suggestions.

#showdev #community #opensource

2 min read

southy404

Apr 15

OpenBlob is evolving: better architecture, modern UI, and real-time transcripts

#opensource #ai #agents #github

3 min read

chris

Mar 12

I built a scorecard that grades each AI agent's ROI — here's how it works

#ai #opensource #mcp #agents

4 min read

Sebastian Wallinstabot project

Mar 12

We Launched on Product Hunt — 2 Weeks Building an API Where AI Agents Pay Per Request

#showdev #webdev #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mar 24

I built a terminal-native Little Snitch alternative for macOS

#go #macos #security #opensource

4 min read

Atlas

Apr 16

Your AI Agent Can Earn Real Money — Here's How

#showdev #cryptocurrency #ai #opensource

2 min read

Apr 15

How to Set Up a Free Coding Agent on Your Machine in 10 Minutes

#ai #opencode #ollama #opensource

5 min read

s3atoshi_leading_ai

Mar 13

IDEO Collapsed. Here's What It Means for Every Engineer's Career.

#ai #career #design #opensource

5 min read

Apr 15

Four Security Bugs That Shipped in AI-Generated Code (and How They Got Caught)

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

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