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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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mag123c

Jan 31

Parsing 2 GiB/s of AI token usage with TUI like ccusage (Rust + simd-json)

#rust #ai #cli #opensource

3 min read

Pavel

Jan 30

Synapse v1.0 — A Programming Language for AI, Not Humans

#ai #programming #rust #opensource

2 min read

linkalls

Dec 31 '25

Jules Mobile Client - React Native App for Google's Jules AI Assistant

#reactnative #mobile #opensource #ai

1 min read

Jan 20

Got 120+ stars in just two weeks since my project was released.

#webdev #opensource #marketing #privacy

1 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 26 '25

Day 34 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Igor Giamoniano

Jan 31

Rescuing Legacy Hardware: Installing Linux on Early UEFI Systems (Debian 13 Case Study)

#linux #debian #opensource #learning

2 min read

Aniruddha Agarwal

Jan 30

Introducing BoldKit: A Neubrutalism React Component Library

#react #opensource #webdev #design

3 min read

AritaYuto

Dec 26 '25

Building an on-premise friendly video review tool for game teams

#opensource #nextjs #tooling #gamedev

2 min read

Jan 30

How I Built a Cursor Alternative That Runs in the Terminal

#vim #coding #claude #opensource

4 min read

Jan 10

Building DogeMoon: A Self-Custodial, Open-Source Ecosystem for Dogecoin 🚀🐕

#blockchain #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Dec 27 '25

Introducing Devion: Automate Your Release Notes & Changelogs

#devtools #opensource #releasemanagement #automation

2 min read

Sivaram

Jan 30

From Moltbot to OpenClaw: When the Dust Settles, the Project Survived

#ai #opensource #clawdbot #openclaw

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 30

AWS open source newsletter, #218

#opensource #aws

27 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Dec 26 '25

Apache SeaTunnel 2.3.10 Source Code Analysis: Zeta Engine Service Startup

#apacheseatunnel #programming #opensource #bigdata

5 min read

Konstantin

Dec 28 '25

Handling multiple branches in AI projects with git worktree

#git #productivity #ai #opensource

1 min read

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