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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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Prog. Kanishk Raj

Feb 7

Why Modern Programming Feels Fragmented — And What ProXPL Is Trying To Fix

#discuss #programming #opensource #showdev

2 min read

Mar 13

AI Writes Code. But Who Checks It?

#ai #programming #opensource #devtools

3 min read

Mar 2

I Logged 4,519 AI Agent Tool Calls. 63 Were Things I Never Authorized.

#discuss #ai #opensource #security

6 min read

edward hernandez machado

Mar 2

I replaced my agents markdown memory with a semantic graph

#ai #rust #agents #opensource

7 min read

Mar 13

I Built 50+ Image & PDF Tools That Run Entirely in Your Browser Using WebAssembly

#webdev #javascript #webassembly #opensource

1 min read

Kir Axanov

Mar 2

NixOS. Snikket. Self-host E2EE messenger with calls

#linux #opensource #privacy #tutorial

5 min read

Nicolas Francisquelo Tacca

Feb 7

OpenClaw’s Security Nightmare: Lessons in Agentic Engineering Era

#security #ai #opensource #programming

8 min read

Shane Ho

Mar 13

I Built 13 Free Browser Tools in a Weekend — Here's What I Learned

#javascript #webdev #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Shashi Bhushan Kumar

Mar 10

How I Got My First Open Source Pull Request Merged (Beginner Guide)

#opensource #github #forem #webdev

3 min read

Sergei Saliukov

Mar 13

How to control fan speed on Mac?

#help #programming #opensource #startup

3 min read

Feb 20

Add`go fix` to Your CI Pipeline

#go #ci #cli #opensource

3 min read

Mar 13

The Three Things Wrong with AI Agents in 2026

#ai #agents #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Mar 13

What the Hex is a Dex? Introducing Deterministic Transformation Artifacts

#programming #opensource #refactorit #devtools

4 min read

Jovan Marinovic

Mar 13

Why Multi-Agent AI Systems Fail (And How to Fix It)

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Prateek Chaudhary

Feb 7

Operating AI in Production Is an Ops Problem

#devops #ai #opensource #observability

2 min read

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