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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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Lucas Neves Pereira

Apr 2

I Built an AI Agent Harness in Go

#go #ai #discord #opensource

9 min read

GrabShot

Feb 27

I Built 7 Free Developer Tools in 7 Days - Here's What I Learned

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 2

I built a self-hosted Docker management ecosystem — NEXUS, Watcher and Pulse (open source, MIT)

#docker #selfhosted #opensource #homelab

5 min read

Tiago

Feb 28

Meet Auric Trade Collective!

#socialist #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

orjinameh

Feb 27

How I Added Screenshare Sound Notifications to an Open Source Chat App

#typescript #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Yash Nagi

Apr 2

How I Build My AI Chat App from Scratch (Architecture + Challenges)

#ai #opensource #architecture #learning

5 min read

Martin Tuncaydin

Mar 13

Open-Source Tools Every Travel Technologist Should Know in 2024

#opensource #traveltechnology #api #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

Sergio Agustin De Vita

Feb 27

I Built a Notepad++ Alternative for Mac — Here's What I Learned

#showdev #opensource #webdev #typescript

2 min read

Will

Feb 27

I Turned Claude into an Executive Assistant. Here's What Happened

#ai #opensource #productivity #agents

6 min read

Ferit

Apr 2

AI Writes 80% of Your Code. Who Reviews It?

#ai #codereview #opensource #devtools

4 min read

NocoBase

Apr 2

Weekly Updates: Add JS variables to event flow

#news #ai #nocode #opensource

6 min read

Apr 2

Mastra in 2026: What It Is, When to Use It, and How It Compares

#typescript #ai #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Feb 27

I replaced a Puppeteer service with 39 lines of code

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Liz Acosta for Vonage Developers

Mar 25

The Vonage Dev Discussion: Open source

#discuss #opensource #womenintech

1 min read

Max Quimby

Apr 2

AMD's Lemonade Just Made Every Nvidia-Only AI Guide Obsolete

#ai #amd #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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