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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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Arindam Majumder for CopilotKit

Feb 9

Build a Multi-Agent Telecom Support System with CopilotKit & LangGraph JS

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

19 min read

Jan 24

Why I built a reusable UI kit for .NET MAUI (free preview available)

#xaml #mobiledevelopment #opensource #dotnetmaui

1 min read

Huỳnh Nhân Quốc

Jan 19

Kitwork and My Journey as an Indie Hacker Pursuing Open-Source

#kitwork #programming #opensource #automation

3 min read

Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclán

Feb 1

An Incredible Operations Platform - Rundeck

#automation #devops #opensource #tooling

12 min read

Akash

Jan 19

Building a Multi-Agent AI Consensus Engine with n8n, Groq, and Supabase

#ai #n8nbrightdatachallenge #supabase #opensource

3 min read

vast cow

Jan 19

Building a “Software HSM” Workflow with SoftHSM2, OpenSC, and Python (Private Key Never Exported)

#opensource #python #security #tutorial

5 min read

Akash

Jan 19

I Built a Voice-Controlled OBS Assistant (Metaltank) — Here’s What Really Happened

#ai #opensource #beginners #software

3 min read

Jan 19

Codeppr: Your AI-Powered Guardian Against Bad Commits

#opensource #ai #python #developertool

5 min read

Jan 31

Introducing ACP Bridge to Amp Code

#agents #ai #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Etop - Essien Emmanuella Ubokabasi for Blnk Finance

Jan 23

How to Build a Bulk Payroll System Using the Blnk Ledger

#fintech #backend #opensource #ledger

6 min read

Feb 11

I Built a Financial Truth Layer for Web3 — 11 Packages, 1,176 Tests, Zero Trust in Chains

#typescript #web3 #opensource #blockchain

2 min read

WayneTyler

Jan 19

Why You Should Learn Drupal in 2026

#career #learning #opensource #webdev

7 min read

Amir Reza Dalir

Feb 11

I Built a Native macOS Authenticator App Because I Was Tired of Reaching for My Phone

#opensource #macos #security #productivity

6 min read

Magic.rb

Feb 10

I built a free, open-source App Store Screenshot Generator

#opensource #webdev #react

3 min read

Jan 18

Building DownloadStuffs: A Modern UI for the Internet Archive

#showdev #opensource #ui #webdev

2 min read

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