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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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SickleFire

May 3

Mvis: Memory Debugging Made Simple and Accessible

#showdev #rust #opensource

2 min read

Jason Zhu

Apr 29

I Indexed 67,000 Open-Source AI Agent Projects. Here's What's Actually Inside.

#ai #opensource #mcp #claude

6 min read

Apr 28

How I Built an AI That Translates Code Between 27 Languages (Solo, No Budget)

#webdev #ai #opensource #buildinpublic

5 min read

May 4

I made openclaw alternative in python

#agents #ai #opensource #cli

1 min read

Apr 28

I built ReqScope — a local API request tracer for Express, because logs weren't enough

#node #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

柚子哥

Apr 29

DeepSeek-V4 is Here, and Yes — 1M Context Is Finally for Everyone

#news #ai #llm #opensource

5 min read

Knipper Mccarville

Apr 29

How I Built a NASA-Style Name Generator with Next.js and Canvas API

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

Ilia Alshanetsky

Apr 28

It's Alive! statgrab Returns After 20 Years

#showdev #php #linux #opensource

7 min read

Oatnil

Apr 29

Access Anywhere — Web, Desktop, CLI, and Beyond

#productivity #devtools #opensource #selfhosted

5 min read

Luis

Apr 28

Your auth server shouldn't cost more RAM than your entire app. So I wrote my own in Rust.

#security #opensource #productivity #rust

4 min read

Apr 29

How to Generate Scheduled PDF Reports from Grafana OSS (and earn $2K-$5K helping clients do it)

#devops #opensource #msp #isp

4 min read

ttatsato | 佐藤立弥

Apr 29

Which Rate Limit Algorithm for My Product?

#apigateway #opensource #designsystem #redis

9 min read

Elison Frankowski

Apr 28

SimCore: I built a social simulation engine where LLM agents live on a real map of your city

#opensource #llm #python #simulation

1 min read

Apr 29

Is PHP the Rockstar of the Servers?

#backend #opensource #php #webdev

2 min read

Shubhagyta Swaraj Jayswal

May 3

Built a context firewall for AI coding tools over the weekend : here's why and how

#python #security #ai #opensource

1 min read

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