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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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Mar 20

n8n vs Zapier in 2026: I Switched and Cut My Automation Bill by 95%

#n8n #automation #selfhosted #opensource

8 min read

Mar 21

Your guide to implementing accessible typography in iOS and Android apps

#a11y #opensource #mobile #design

1 min read

airano

Mar 20

🚨 Malware Found in AI Agent Skills: A Security Advisory

#ai #security #malware #opensource

2 min read

Mar 24

Wondering how to join outreachy? Look no further. A clear onboarding guide for outreachy application process.

#opensource #outreachy #programming #beginners

2 min read

Yaqing2023

Mar 20

MoltsPay 1.3.0: Now with Tempo Testnet & MPP Protocol Support

#ai #blockchain #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 21

Running Local LLMs: Complete Privacy-First AI Setup Guide

#ai #privacy #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Yuwei Xiao

Mar 20

pg_duckpipe: Real-time CDC for streaming Postgres Table into Columnar Ducklake

#postgres #opensource #analytics #database

3 min read

Mar 20

14 Best Self-Hosted Claude Alternatives for AI and Coding in 2026

#ai #opensource

13 min read

xiaocai oh

Mar 20

I Built a Context-Aware Voice Input Tool for macOS — 100% On-Device, Zero Cloud

#opensource #macos #swift #ai

3 min read

Wes

Mar 30

The Blackwall Between Your AI Agent and Your Filesystem

#opensource #security #go #ai

6 min read

Mar 19

Intrducing momo-kiji: CUDA for Apple Neural Engine

#machinelearning #ai #opensource

1 min read

무적이

Mar 20

4 CLI Tools Every Developer Needs (That You've Never Heard Of)

#devtools #cli #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Olivier Buitelaar

Mar 19

Two More GitHub Actions: Stale Branch Cleaner + Changelog Generator

#githubactions #devops #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 20

Your Website Is Invisible to ChatGPT. Here's the Fix.

#ai #webdev #seo #opensource

3 min read

Mar 20

I built a LoL-style tier system for GitHub profiles

#showdev #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

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