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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.

submission guidelines

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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Xiaona (小娜)

Feb 22

How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Browses the Web

#ai #webdev #automation #opensource

7 min read

Feb 23

YINI CLI 1.2.1-beta: Safer Validation, Improved Help, and Smarter Output Handling

#node #cli #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 23

What is OpenTelemetry? [Everything You Need to Know]

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Jan 20

How I Merged a PR in VS Code & My Open Source Roadmap for GSoC 2026

#opensource #gsoc2026 #vscode #career

2 min read

Feb 23

Created a GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows Repository for Personal Use

#githubactions #opensource

3 min read

Jan 20

🔍 Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #security

2 min read

Jan 20

Kubernetes Monitoring with Grafana

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #grafana

3 min read

Sarkis M

Feb 23

The Pipeline That Doesn't Know It's Being Watched

#functional #effectts #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Feb 23

I Built a Flight Recorder for AI Agents — Here's What It Catches

#ai #opensource #python #machinelearning

4 min read

Feb 9

I Built 2 AI Agents to Run My Open Source Project While I'm in Surgery

#ai #opensource #buildinpublic #agentsystem

4 min read

MaxxMini

Feb 23

How I Prepared My Show HN Launch — A Solo Dev Checklist

#showdev #webdev #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Amr

Jan 20

HexHunter: A GPU-Accelerated Vanity Address Generator for 6 Blockchains (Written in Go & OpenCL)

#go #web3 #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

Jan 18

Paperfold: Using Telegram as Unlimited Cloud Storage with a Desktop App

#buildinpublic #opensource #productivity #rust

2 min read

Eshan Roy (eshanized)

Jan 19

I Built an Automated SLM Fine-Tuning Engine with Python and Unsloth 🚀

#python #machinelearning #opensource #nlp

3 min read

Feb 22

From Template to Tested Product: Launching the LLM Component Schema Standard

#designsystem #ai #frontend #opensource

3 min read

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