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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

Outreachy May, 2026

#opensource #webdev #programming #beginners

2 min read

Mar 13

Building an Autonomous Clinical Researcher: Track Breakthroughs with LangGraph and Semantic Scholar

#discuss #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Apr 15

Laravel has no native WebDAV server — so I built one

#showdev #laravel #opensource #php

2 min read

David Van Assche (S.L)

Apr 15

Running AI Coding Agents for Free: The Open Source & Local Setup Guide (2026)

#ai #tutorial #opensource #beginners

4 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 15

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

HALO

Mar 13

Mastering ADV Development with GOKI2: Manage Character Assets, Audio Paths, and Dialogues Like a Pro

#architecture #gamedev #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Switchman

Mar 12

I got tired of AI coding agents stepping on each other, so I built Switchman

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

Kerim Yıldırım

Mar 12

I Built a Django Package to Generate llms.txt Files Automatically

#ai #django #python #opensource

2 min read

Hazel Saenz for AWS

Apr 15

Cómo crear un agente de IA desde cero. Open source, local y gratis.

#agents #ai #opensource #tutorial

14 min read

Mar 12

How I Reverse Engineered the Skool API (And Ended Up Publishing a Chrome Extension)

#webdev #ai #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Hendry

Mar 12

The Info-Site: A Name for Something Small Businesses Actually Need

#webdev #selfhosted #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Mar 12

How to Automate OpenClaw Backup and Optimization with GitHub

#devops #automation #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

EdFife

Apr 15

🤖 My AI Agents Version Themselves: How We Built Self-Evolving Personas Using Semantic Versioning

#ai #opensource #llm #programming

21 min read

Iryna

Mar 12

10 Fivetran Alternatives Worth Checking Out

#saas #data #opensource #aws

4 min read

Max Klein

Mar 12

How spreading activation beats keyword search for LLM agents

#rust #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

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