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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 11

Why I built a unified TypeScript utility ecosystem (and what I learned)

#typescript #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Alexander Leonhard

Apr 14

Why building a job scraper for $0.39/1,000 jobs is not about the money.

#agents #mcp #ai #opensource

5 min read

Andrea Tasselli

Mar 11

I Open-Sourced a Figma-to-Avada Shortcode Converter (AI + Claude Code)

#showdev #ai #automation #opensource

3 min read

Pranit

Mar 11

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Ian Parent

Apr 14

Closing the Eval Gap: From Lenient Defaults to Signal That Matters

#mcp #aiagents #observability #opensource

5 min read

Apr 14

🚀 Your Data. Your Server. Your Agents. Zero SaaS Bills.

#devops #webdev #ai #opensource

5 min read

Mar 11

I Built a Free API That Scans 10,000+ Prediction Markets for Arbitrage

#python #api #finance #opensource

2 min read

Mar 11

How I Built claude-duet: Real-Time Pair Programming with AI

#opensource #ai #typescript #claude

1 min read

Michael Hightower

Apr 14

I built an open-source WMS because every warehouse management system costs $2,000/month

#opensource #python #docker #react

2 min read

Ievgenii Gryshkun

Apr 14

How to Check If Your Magento Store Is Visible to ChatGPT — Free AEO Audit Module

#magento #aeo #chatgpt #opensource

4 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 15

I Built an AI Video Director That Turns Lessons Into Animated Videos

#ai #python #opensource #geminiliveagentchallenge

4 min read

Mar 11

Espanso vs TextExpander 2026: Why Configuration-as-Code Sometimes Fails

#productivity #programming #linux #opensource

3 min read

Tom Lee

Mar 11

Files Are the New API — But Who's Checking the Files?

#ai #agents #security #opensource

4 min read

Ibrahim Olawoyin

Mar 25

Outreachy 2026 -Comprehensive portfolio of my contributions to the Fedora Project during the Outreachy application phase

#outreachy #fedora #opensource #portfolio

5 min read

Apr 14

⚡ From `git clone` to Full Company Operating System in 60 Seconds.

#showdev #opensource #ai #devops

6 min read

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