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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 18

Your AI Coding Agent is Blind. Here's the Fix.

#ai #opensource #productivity #codenewbie

3 min read

Romain Guillemot

Mar 18

Tired of bloated boilerplates? I built a minimal Express + React starter

#discuss #react #express #opensource

1 min read

Mar 18

🤖 Building Advanced Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Systems with OrkaJS: A Complete Architecture Guide

#webdev #ai #opensource #softwareengineering

9 min read

Aditya

Mar 17

Send Bulk Emails in Python Using mail-senderpy

#opensource #python #tutorial #cli

3 min read

Mariusz Gębala

Mar 18

Prowler vs ScoutSuite vs cloud-audit [2026]

#aws #security #devops #opensource

1 min read

Feb 12

Why Your Screen Recordings Need View Analytics

#opensource #webdev #productivity #video

4 min read

Bridge ACE

Mar 18

Bridge ACE in Numbers: What We Shipped in v1.0.0

#ai #opensource #release #devtools

2 min read

Ian Parent

Mar 18

Why Every MCP Agent Needs an Independent Observer

#mcp #aiagents #observability #opensource

6 min read

Mar 7

Stop Getting Walls of AI Text — I Built a Tool That Shows Thinking Paths

#ai #javascript #electron #opensource

2 min read

Ferit

Mar 17

I Built an AI Code Review Tool and Tested It Against 6 Competitors. Here's an Honest Breakdown.

#ai #codereview #opensource #devtools

6 min read

Mar 18

Pdf Tools

#opensource #productivity #resources #tooling

5 min read

Ian Parent

Mar 18

Why Your AI Agents Need Observability

#mcp #aiagents #observability #opensource

5 min read

Mar 18

Self-Hosted AI Models: A Practical Guide to Running LLMs Locally (2026)

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

19 min read

Subrata Kumar Das

Mar 18

Building a Local RAG System with Citations (No Hallucinations)

#webdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Mar 18

I built an MCP server for Shopify and Stripe write operations — the gap nobody filled

#typescript #shopify #stripe #opensource

2 min read

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