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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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Coroot

Jan 20

How to make GPUs on Kubernetes Observable

#kubernetes #ai #devops #opensource

5 min read

Dec 17 '25

Testing in Umami codebase - Part 1.2

#umami #opensource #testing #architecture

2 min read

Arsenii

Jan 20

Post-Mortem: Analyzing 86 failed model checks in a production-like scan

#security #devops #ai #opensource

2 min read

Jan 19

I built a free, privacy-first WakaTime alternative (using Go & MongoDB) for VS Code & Neovim with Zero Latency

#go #neovim #vscode #opensource

4 min read

Navneet Singh Rajput

Dec 15 '25

I Launched a UI Library, Got 100+ Downloads But AI Couldn’t Understand My Docs

#opensource #react #ai #devto

1 min read

Taylor Lindores Reeves for Digital Speed

Jan 20

Spec-Driven Development: The Future of AI Coding

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Dec 15 '25

I Built CodeContext: An AI-Powered Tool That Analyzes Any Codebase in Seconds

#kotlin #opensource #devtools #ai

5 min read

Jan 9

From Zero to SDF Editor Beta: How I Used AI to Force My Dream Project Out of the Prototype Stage. What I learned?

#discuss #python #sideprojects #opensource

3 min read

Jan 9

Tired of Switching Tools Just to Write Markdown?

#markdown #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Dec 29 '25

Kubernetes In-Place Pod Resize

#kubernetes #opensource #sre

3 min read

Alan Tsai

Dec 15 '25

An AI Almost Deleted My Code

#ai #opensource #devtools #programming

4 min read

Dec 16 '25

Testing in Umami codebase - Part 1.1

#umami #opensource #testing #architecture

4 min read

Jan 14

Stop Zipping Folders: How I Built a Zero-Trust Tunnel to Share Files Instantly (in Go)

#go #opensource #cli #security

3 min read

Minimus

Dec 15 '25

Sha1-Hulud 2.0 - The Second Coming: A Technical Breakdown

#security #opensource #devops #javascript

5 min read

Yuhao Xu

Jan 20

I Built an Open-Source Cowork in 24 Hours with ZERO Rust Experience — and the Agent Builts Itself

#claude #opensource #ai #rust

2 min read

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