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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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kiran ravi

Jan 6

🚀 Web Hosting in 2026: A Practical Guide for Founders, Developers & Students

#devops #opensource #resources #productivity

5 min read

Feb 10

I shipped an npm package during the Super Bowl by texting my AI agent

#typescript #ai #opensource #soundcloud

7 min read

Om Kawale

Jan 6

Stop Building Stale RAG: Meet Sentinel, the "Self-Healing" Knowledge Graph

#python #rag #opensource #ai

3 min read

Mobin Valadi for Kurdistan Linux Lab | تاقیگەی لینوکسی کوردستان

Jan 6

Mastering the Linux Terminal: A Developer's Guide to Filesystem Navigation

#linux #kurd #kurdistan #opensource

5 min read

Pradeep Kalluri

Jan 5

Rewriting My Apache Airflow PR: When Your First Solution Isn't the Right One

#programming #dataengineering #python #opensource

6 min read

Feb 7

Why I use Typetify: A Type-Safe Alternative to Lodash

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Feb 9

283 ClawHub Skills Are Leaking Your Secrets. VirusTotal Can't Fix This.

#ai #security #devops #opensource

4 min read

Feb 9

I Turned a Webcam Into an Ambient Light Sensor

#rust #python #linux #opensource

7 min read

Willie

Feb 9

How to Sync AI Skills Across Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Codex in 2 Minutes

#ai #opensource #tutorial #productivity

4 min read

Feb 7

I Built a Programming Language Where think Is a Keyword

#ai #programming #opensource #typescript

6 min read

Wintyx57

Feb 9

Your AI Agent Just Got a Credit Card: Introducing x402 Bazaar

#ai #webdev #opensource #blockchain

7 min read

Akshay Kolhapure

Feb 9

I Built an Open-Source Authentication Engine for Node.js (with the Help of AI)

#ai #opensource #backend #node

3 min read

Jan 6

🚀 Full-Stack AI Image Generation App | OpenAI DALL-E & Cloudinary

#ai #react #opensource #mern

1 min read

Ravi Kumar

Feb 9

I Built a Social Card Validator in a Weekend (and Here's What I Learned About Open Graph Tags)

#showdev #svelte #webdev #opensource

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

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