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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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kokos

Jan 1

I Built a Self-Hosted Content Moderation API (Open Source)

#opensource #ai #security #python

3 min read

jelly cri

Jan 25

Building PriorityPilot: A CLI Project Manager That Learns From Your Decisions

#python #programming #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

forest6511

Jan 6

Stop Pasting Secrets into AI Chat - Use AI-Safe Credentials Instead

#ai #security #opensource #mcp

2 min read

Markus Neusinger

Jan 6

I built pyplots.ai - 1000+ library-agnostic Python plotting examples

#showdev #python #dataviz #opensource

1 min read

Kaustubh Kushwaha

Jan 6

Maps are easy. Map UIs are not.

#webdev #react #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Feb 5

Looking for Open Source Contributors — Let’s Build Terminal Atmosphere Together 🌍

#opensource #ai #webdev #node

2 min read

freerave

Dec 31 '25

Stop Sharing .env Files on Slack: Introducing Multi-User Encryption for VS Code

#vscode #opensource #productivity #security

2 min read

Ovi ren

Jan 27

i made buttons that run away from you (prank projects)

#javascript #webdev #html #opensource

4 min read

Lourens Wasserman

Jan 16

Neurop Forge: Your AI Can't Lie About What It Did Anymore

#showdev #ai #security #opensource

1 min read

monokkai

Jan 6

Mockmate — TypeScript-first mock data generator

#typescript #javascript #testing #opensource

2 min read

Feb 2

SnapPoint: A Hard Reset for Your Dev Machine

#programming #opensource #go #productivity

5 min read

Narnaiezzsshaa Truong

Dec 31 '25

EIOC as a Detection Model: From Framework to Code

#python #security #ux #opensource

5 min read

Nexora

Jan 1

Nexora Launcher — Prototype Release (WPF / .NET 8)

#showdev #csharp #opensource #dotnet

2 min read

Jan 1

Navigating the NVIDIA Tech Ecosystem

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Feb 5

I Stopped Manually Documenting My Repos: Now They Generate Their Own Wikis

#python #ai #productivity #opensource

5 min read

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