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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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Sahan

Mar 21

Introducing gh-weekly-updates - Automate Your Weekly GitHub Impact Summaries

#github #python #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Mar 12

My first contribution.

#beginners #datascience #opensource #python

1 min read

Apr 11

I Got Tired of Copying the Same MERN Boilerplate, So I Built a CLI

#webdev #javascript #node #opensource

2 min read

Pete Beeda

Apr 3

Maybe WordPress Should Stop Being the Default for Modern Content Systems

#wordpress #opensource #headless #cms

6 min read

CodeKing

Apr 14

"How I Route claude-sonnet-4-6 to GPT-5 Codex — Without Claude Code Knowing the Difference"

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Apr 3

Why You Should Pin Your OpenClaw Version — Lessons from v2026.3.31 Breaking Changes

#ai #webdev #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Mar 11

OpenSSL 4.0 Is Coming: Encrypted Client Hello and New Cryptographic Features

#news #opensource #privacy #security

3 min read

Dan

Mar 10

The agent identity problem nobody is talking about yet

#ai #security #agents #opensource

2 min read

Mar 11

TaskBridge: The Open-Source Answer to RentAHuman - Why the Next Marketplace Is Bidirectional

#ai #agents #marketplace #opensource

3 min read

Andreas Paradisiotis

Apr 11

I built a local screen reader that reads your screen aloud — no cloud, no API keys

#python #ai #opensource #a11y

2 min read

Jalaldeen Muhammathu Shakeel

Mar 24

Securing Networks with pfSense: VLAN Segmentation and Traffic Control in IT

#opensource #security #network #tutorial

2 min read

Alex Picazo Huerta

Mar 10

Why junior developers struggle to contribute to open source

#showdev #beginners #github #opensource

2 min read

Apr 11

I built a Web Component UI Kit.

#webcomponents #javascript #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Mar 10

Why AI Agents Need Zero Trust Identity (and How to Build It)

#showdev #ai #security #opensource

7 min read

sunyifu

Mar 11

I Gave My OpenClaw 60+ Superpowers — Here Are the Ones I Actually Use Daily

#ai #openclaw #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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