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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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Alex Dev

Feb 17

Why I Built My Own AWS Deployment Tool

#aws #typescript #serverless #opensource

7 min read

Feb 17

API Testing Tools in 2026: Why I Built My Own (After Comparing All the Popular Ones)

#api #devtools #opensource #ai

6 min read

Mar 24

I Built 51 GitHub Repos in 10 Days — Here Is What Actually Got Traffic

#github #opensource #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Feb 18

Building a "Vibrant Depth" Design Language for Laravel Components with Tailwind CSS 4

#laravel #css #opensource #tailwindcss

3 min read

Jitendriya Tripathy

Mar 22

How I Built (and Why I Use) an SEO Pricing Calculator — The Developer's Perspective on Agency Profit Math

#webdev #freelance #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Mar 21

I built Tesla Dog Mode for macOS because my AI agents kept dying.

#showdev #opensource #swift #macos

1 min read

Anson Chan

Feb 17

Building a Privacy-First File Converter That Runs 100% in Your Browser

#webdev #javascript #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Mar 23

oxlint-tailwindcss: el plugin de linting que Tailwind v4 necesitaba

#tooling #tailwindcss #opensource

7 min read

Mar 23

oxlint-tailwindcss: the linting plugin Tailwind v4 needed

#tooling #tailwindcss #opensource

7 min read

Mar 13

I Tested 10 Shadcn Templates for Next.js Projects (Here Are the Best Ones)

#webdev #opensource #react #nextjs

6 min read

byte271

Feb 18

6cy: A Content-Addressed Archive Format in Rust

#showdev #architecture #opensource #rust

2 min read

Agenium platform

Feb 18

We built an AI agent messenger (and it's live)

#ai #agents #opensource #webdev

2 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 13

Agents That Argue Back

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Mar 23

Introducing Minoo: A Living Map of Indigenous Community

#indigenous #community #opensource #northernontario

2 min read

mtdnot

Feb 17

I built a visual org chart editor for OpenClaw multi-agent systems

#openclaw #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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