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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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Jit Chakraborty

Mar 15

I built EchoId – a privacy-focused messaging app with encrypted chat and voice calls

#programming #privacy #sideprojects #opensource

1 min read

Mar 15

Why I’m Choosing Simplicity for My Next GitHub Projects

#programming #opensource #architecture #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Feb 22

I built 98 AI microservices that accept Bitcoin Lightning — here's what I learned

#bitcoin #ai #api #opensource

2 min read

Wes

Mar 14

Nobody Reviews Their Agent's Code

#opensource #go #ai #tooling

6 min read

Robin Haze

Feb 10

How do robots dream?

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Mar 15

15 Hugging Face Alternatives for Private, Self-Hosted AI Deployment (2026)

#ai #opensource #cloud #devops

10 min read

Andy

Mar 15

OctoAlly — dashboard terminal management for AI coding sessions with Whisper voice control and multi-agent orchestration

#opensource #ai #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Mar 4

VoxPilot v0.3.7: Transcript History

#vscode #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Jyes

Mar 14

4 Years on DEV 🎉 – My First Post

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

2 min read

Feb 9

InALign: Tamper-Proof Audit Trails for AI Agents

#ai #security #opensource #devtools

3 min read

Polliog

Mar 14

Logtide 0.8.0: Browser Observability, MongoDB Support, and Golden Signals

#discuss #opensource #devops #monitoring

6 min read

Woojin Ahn

Feb 21

I built a GitHub star monitor in a single YAML file — zero dependencies, zero config

#github #opensource #actions #automation

3 min read

Shahnoor_Mujawar

Mar 4

dotenv Hasn't Evolved in 10 Years — So I Built Something Better

#javascript #opensource #developers #node

2 min read

Mar 15

How to Self-Host Rocket.Chat with Docker Compose

#devops #docker #opensource #tutorial

12 min read

Mar 13

We Published a Formal Spec for Tamper-Evident AI Audit Chains

#ai #python #opensource #security

4 min read

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