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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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Git Sexual

Feb 24

Personality-Driven AI: Why Generic Responses Aren't Good Enough

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

1 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇦🇺 Australia devs: Add Medicare Card / Tax File Number to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Iconical

Feb 24

I Built My Own Self-Hosted File Sharing Server Instead of Alts; Here’s Why

#opensource #selfhosted #webdev #tooling

2 min read

SangheeSon

Feb 28

I built a CLI that rolls movie-style credits for your git repo

#go #cli #opensource #terminal

1 min read

Mothilal M for 10XScale

Feb 28

We Built a Typesense Dashboard with an AI Brain and It's Lowkey Insane 🧠⚡

#opensource #ai #typesense #webdev

4 min read

Feb 28

Stop Paying for Overpriced PDM: A 100% Free, Open-Source Drawing Management System

#showdev #opensource #productivity #tooling

2 min read

Julien Berthomier

Feb 24

I built a Chrome extension that lets you annotate localhost and have AI fix everything

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Rock

Feb 28

Deploy Your Own AI Bot to Discord, Telegram & WeChat in 5 Minutes

#ai #chatbot #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Feb 24

Agentic Browser Automation – Lightweight Selenium + Claude Code bridge

#ai #javascript #python #opensource

2 min read

Hadi Akbarzadeh

Feb 24

Unlock Dynamic String Processing in PHP with Risma

#php #backend #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Mohit ✨

Feb 28

🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: February 2026

#devjournal #opensource #productivity #ai

3 min read

Feb 28

I built an open-source BIM automation platform (and learned a lot the hard way)

#opensource #python #django

1 min read

atani

Feb 23

I archived my CLI tool gh-attach after realizing playwright-cli can do the same thing — upload im...

#opensource #ai #programming

1 min read

Feb 24

I Built My Own Open Source Gym Tracker Because Every Other App Was Lying to Me

#opensource #fitenesstech #selfhosting #buildinpublic

5 min read

Feb 24

Define your project once, generate AGENTS.md + .cursorrules + CLAUDE.md + GEMINI.md

#opensource #ai #programming #productivity

1 min read

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