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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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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

Narnaiezzsshaa Truong

Dec 31 '25

EIOC as a Detection Model: From Framework to Code

#python #security #ux #opensource

5 min read

Feb 2

SnapPoint: A Hard Reset for Your Dev Machine

#programming #opensource #go #productivity

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

Feb 5

How to Give Your AI Agent Persistent Memory in 60 Seconds

#ai #productivity #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Ted Yang

Jan 1

I open-sourced an AI app platform where contributors’ features actually ship to the App Store

#showdev #mobile #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jan 1

🚀 Modern Blogging Platform | Built with Next.js 13

#nextjs #react #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jan 1

🚀 AI Interactive Quiz Generator | Engaging Browser-Based Quiz App

#ai #react #opensource #programming

1 min read

Valentin Knabel

Jan 2

Discontinuing of Projects

#career #opensource #programming

1 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 31 '25

Day 37 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #tutorial #productivity #opensource

3 min read

22s Pocket Portfolio for Pocket Portfolio

Jan 6

Stop Scraping Yahoo Finance: A Free, No-Key JSON Endpoint for Stock Data

#javascript #finance #api #opensource

2 min read

Jan 1

A New Year, an Open Source Tool

#documentation #opensource #tooling #api

2 min read

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