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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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Dheeraj

Mar 30

Empty (Blank Board): A Minimal Canvas Where Everything Is a Plugin

#javascript #opensource #webdev #buildinpublic

2 min read

jidonglab

Mar 31

Open Source, MIT License, Fork of RTK — The Full Story

#opensource #rust #ai #programming

2 min read

Mar 31

Improving Dawarich's Functionality and User Experience Through Open-Source Collaboration and Community Engagement

#opensource #privacy #community #geotagging

14 min read

Ray

Mar 31

Stop Paying for Monitoring: The Self-Hosted Stack for Indie SaaS Founders

#python #opensource #devops #startup

3 min read

Oscar Ricardo Sánche Gutierréz

Mar 31

RustDesk: How to Create a Secure Private Remote Access Network

#rustdesk #remotedesktop #selfhosted #opensource

5 min read

Michael "Mike" K. Saleme

Mar 30

Agent Systems Are Failing at Trust Boundaries. We Ran 332 Tests to Prove It.

#security #ai #opensource #python

6 min read

Mar 30

AI terminal tools in 2026: Warp, Lacy Shell, and the rest

#terminal #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Vyas Barath Krishnan

Mar 30

I spent 8 weeks building a Nash Equilibrium calculator from scratch in Python

#opensource #github #computerscience #algorithms

1 min read

jidonglab

Mar 31

agency-agents: 120 AI Specialist Personas That Prove Prompts Need Personality, Not Just Instructions

#ai #promptengineering #agents #opensource

2 min read

opaopa6969

Mar 31

AI Characters Arguing About Your Code. Yes, Really

#ai #devtools #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Dor Ringel

Mar 30

epsiclaw: The Karpathy treatment for OpenClaw - 515 lines of Python

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Mar 30

Building a Gantt Chart Component with Zero Dependencies

#javascript #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 30

I Built an AI That Turns Notion Tasks Into Real Projects (AURA MCP)

#ai #programming #opensource #learning

3 min read

Kyle

Mar 30

I Built Tritone - A Modern Desktop Client For Subsonic Music Servers

#opensource #selfhosted #music #programming

3 min read

GDS K S

Mar 30

5 open source auth libraries that actually handle AI agents (2026)

#ai #security #typescript #opensource

6 min read

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