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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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freerave

Mar 12

I Built a 1-Click OAuth Flow for VS Code to Stop Copying API Keys

#vscode #opensource #productivity #freerave

3 min read

Arjun

Feb 7

I Built a Global Store That Automatically Adjusts Price and Language (No JSON Files Required)

#webdev #hackathon #opensource #programming

2 min read

Marco

Feb 19

I built an open-source AI agent that actually does SEO — not just talks about it

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

3 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 12

The Wound That Makes Art Breathe

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

HYPHANTA

Mar 12

The Courage to Build Badly in Public

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

iFarouq

Feb 10

# iFarouqCSS v2.3.0 Released: Community-Driven Improvements 🚀

#css #webdev #opensource #ifarouqcss

1 min read

Yanis

Mar 12

Open Source Travel Vaccine Tracker Guide 2026

#opensource #privacy #tutorial #webdev

5 min read

PSBigBig OneStarDao

Feb 6

What Kind of Language Is the “Tension Universe”?

#discuss #development #performance #opensource

7 min read

Ananya for OWASP BLT

Mar 11

The Transition: From Intent to Integration

#opensource #gsoc2026 #googlesummerofcode2026 #programming

3 min read

Feb 5

We Tried to Build Analytics Without a Database. It Sort of Worked.

#programming #opensource #database #tutorial

3 min read

Safdar Ali

Mar 12

Emergent SH: The Open-Source AI Agent Framework Quietly Gaining Attention

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12

Your SKILL.md Works in Claude Code but Silently Fails in VS Code

#ai #opensource #productivity #devops

5 min read

Lightning Developer

Mar 11

Understanding Your Local AI Playground: A Look at Port 3080 and LibreChat

#webdev #productivity #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Mar 1

Why AI Agents Need Their Own Authorization Protocol (and how we built one)

#ai #security #opensource #webdev

6 min read

WonderLab

Mar 12

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 14): CC Workflow Studio - Visual AI Workflow Editor for Simpler AI Automation

#claudecode #ai #opensource #agents

9 min read

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