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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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ucmind

Dec 10

Why does AI still feel so “useless”?(and how to fix it)

#discuss #ai #opensource

3 min read

Polliog

Dec 12

LogWard 0.3.0: Full SIEM Dashboard, C# SDK, and Our Roadmap

#opensource #programming #security #dotnet

4 min read

Aya

Dec 10

Hello World! 👋 Starting to share my progress

#discuss #beginners #opensource #welcome

1 min read

SATINATH MONDAL

Dec 10

Introducing AI Usage Measurement Framework (Track AI-Assisted Development in Your Repositories)

#news #ai #opensource #github

3 min read

Addact Technologies

Dec 11

Umbraco 17 LTS: Features, Improvements & What Developers Should Know

#webdev #cms #umbraco #opensource

2 min read

Narayandas Akhil Achary

Dec 9

🚀 Meet Loopi: The Open-Source Visual Automation Tool I Wish I Had Years Ago

#discuss #productivity #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Dec 10

Canvas Drawing Editor - A Zero-Dependency Canvas Editor Web Component

#javascript #webcomponents #opensource #frontend

22 min read

ARPIT SRIVASTAVA

Dec 9

Built a Rock-Solid E2E Tests for KubeStellar: A 3-Month Journey

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #kubestellar

5 min read

Chen Debra

Dec 11

From Bug Fixes to Ecosystem Enhancements: Key Highlights from DolphinScheduler’s November Updates

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #bigdata #development

5 min read

Julia

Dec 10

OpenDataLoader: Safe, Open, High-Performance — PDF for AI

#ai #programming #python #opensource

6 min read

NocoBase

Dec 11

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

14 min read

Dec 9

Why your support team can't use Grafana

#opensource #monitoring #observability

2 min read

Tech Croc

Dec 11

The “Chatbot Era” Just Ended. Welcome to the Year of the Agent.

#webdev #powerplatform #opensource #agents

3 min read

Julien

Dec 9

I built an AI-powered Portfolio Tracker

#showdev #nextjs #react #opensource

1 min read

Dec 11

Carific.ai: From AI Slop to Actionable Feedback - Structured Output with Zod and the AI SDK

#ai #nextjs #typescript #opensource

6 min read

Oleksandra

Dec 10

Catching Nested any in typescript-eslint

#opensource #tooling #typescript

2 min read

Dec 10

State management in Umami codebase - Part 1.2

#statemanagement #umami #opensource #zustand

4 min read

Michael

Dec 10

KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Didn’t Add Features—It Removed Friction

#opensource #kde #productivity #debian

6 min read

Dec 9

context-async-sqlalchemy - The best way to use sqlalchemy in an async python application

#webdev #python #sql #opensource

10 min read

Precious Chisom

Dec 9

Linux history

#computerscience #linux #opensource

6 min read

Dec 9

10 Open-Source Tools That Replaced My Paid SaaS Stack (And Why They Actually Deserved To)

#ai #opensource #resources #saas

3 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 9

Day 21 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #productivity #opensource #career

2 min read

MUHAMMAD USMAN AWAN

Dec 13

🌌 How I Built a GROK-Inspired Starfield & Shooting Stars Using HTML Canvas ✨

#html #css #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Dec 12

Designed a Complete Hiring Platform But Can't Code - Help Me Build it open source.

#opensource #dotnet #csharp #programming

6 min read

Dec 9

LLM Gateway Comparison: Bifrost vs LiteLLM (2025)

#ai #comparison #opensource #llm

3 min read

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