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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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Mate Technologies

Jan 5

🐍 Python Tiny Tools: Practical Automation, Learning & 200+ Project Ideas

#python #automation #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Amit Maraj for Google AI

Feb 6

Agent Factory Recap: Cracking Open an Open Model

#ai #agents #gemini #opensource

4 min read

Gaurav Chile | InfraForgeLabs

Jan 5

Why CLI-First Still Matters for Learning DevOps in 2026

#cloud #devops #opensource #programming

2 min read

Alistair

Feb 6

Building Clusterflick: A London Cinema Aggregator

#javascript #webdev #opensource #ai

1 min read

Yuval

Feb 6

I Made My Claude AI Agents Invent Their Own Language. It Cut Token Costs by 63%.

#ai #productivity #opensource #programming

6 min read

Badass_Technologia

Feb 9

Open-Source Alternatives to n8n in 2026

#automation #opensource #productivity #tooling

4 min read

Jan 29

Backstage SaaS & Open Source Alternatives

#devops #opensource #saas #tooling

6 min read

Yuvraj Angad Singh

Feb 6

Your GitHub Graph is Lying About How Much You Work. Here's How I Fixed Mine.

#opensource #github #cli #productivity

2 min read

chenhao

Jan 4

Show HN: DeepDiagram – Open source AI diagram generator (Draw.io, Mermaid)

#showdev #ai #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Jan 19

How I Reduced My Test Suite by 72% Using TestIQ

#python #testing #ai #opensource

4 min read

Andres David Rincon Salazar

Jan 4

I Built a Discord Automation Bot (And Why You Probably Shouldn't Use It)

#python #opensource #github #automation

5 min read

Jan 19

Razer AIKit: Open-Source, Local-First AI Workflows for Developers

#news #ai #opensource

2 min read

Gustavo Almendras

Jan 5

I gave my Go programs a "nervous system" so they can feel pain and disobey me

#go #opensource #programming #architecture

1 min read

Indian Website Company

Jan 5

5 Free Open-Source Tools to Simplify Modern Web Development

#webdev #opensource #tooling #beginners

5 min read

Seryl Lns

Feb 8

DataPorter -- A Rails engine that turns data imports into a self-service feature

#ruby #rails #opensource

3 min read

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