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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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Jan 29

I built a free, privacy-focused alternative to TinyWow with 60+ tools 🛠️

#showdev #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Alessandro Pireno

Mar 4

10 Things That Need a Shell: Where the Filesystem Metaphor Could Fix Agent Interfaces

#ai #opensource #agents #devtools

8 min read

Rwan

Jan 29

I Built a Minecraft-Inspired Dashboard for AI Agents — Zero Dependencies, Pure Vanilla JS

#opensource #javascript #ai #webdev

4 min read

abdelrahman seada

Jan 29

Scripts Runner: Manage Your npm Scripts with Style 🚀

#vscode #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Vladimir Parfenov

Mar 4

LazyLogcat is available in Homebrew now

#opensource #androiddev #android #tui

1 min read

Ananya for OWASP BLT

Mar 4

A New Chapter for OWASP BLT: Our Website Revamp is Live! ✨

#opensource #ui #owaspblt #webdev

1 min read

Yurukusa

Mar 4

I Built Spotify Wrapped for Claude Code. Here's What 3,400 Sessions Look Like.

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Wes

Mar 4

My MCP Server Was 2x Larger Than Playwright. Now It's 136x Smaller.

#mcp #ai #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Wes

Mar 4

Your LLM Doesn't Need 200 Lines of Test Output

#opensource #rust #ai #tooling

6 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 9

I Shipped the Solution to Knowledge Collapse in 21 Days

#discuss #ai #opensource #activitypub

7 min read

Mar 4

I Compared 6 Platforms for Deploying Self-Hosted Apps in 2026

#selfhosted #opensource #devops #webdev

8 min read

Peter Vivo

Mar 4

Adventure of javascript based MMORPG creation.

#gamedev #react #opensource #architecture

5 min read

Mar 4

"40% of Enterprise Apps Will Have AI Agents by 2026. Zero Have a Common Language."

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #programming

6 min read

Mar 4

From an Unemployed Side-Project to AWS Community Builder: Why you should start sharing today

#aws #buildinpublic #career #opensource

2 min read

Feb 2

My FOSDEM 2026 watchlist

#fosdem #opensource #postgres #community

4 min read

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