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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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deltax

Jan 1

If AI Doesn’t Improve Anything, It Should Stop Talking

#ai #governance #safety #opensource

1 min read

p4nd3m1c

Jan 1

LanManVan: How to Create Your Own Modules

#cybersecurity #go #metasploit #opensource

3 min read

deltax

Jan 1

DELTΔX: A non-decision AI governance framework with explicit stop conditions

#ai #governance #safety #opensource

1 min read

p4nd3m1c

Jan 1

LanManVan: setting up!

#go #cybersecurity #opensource #python

3 min read

DD

Nov 28 '25

Deploying weserv/images with Docker

#tutorial #devops #docker #opensource

1 min read

kokos

Jan 1

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

#opensource #ai #security #python

3 min read

Eliana Lam

Nov 29 '25

Building Streaming Iceberg Tables for Real-Time Logistics Analytics

#analytics #dataengineering #architecture #opensource

4 min read

SUNANDA SAMANTA

Dec 30 '25

I Hacked GitHub Readmes to Show Real-Time Data (No Spinner, No JS)

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

4 min read

Jan 1

Docify v2: Moving Beyond Standard RAG to Multi-Document Agents

#showdev #ai #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Nov 28 '25

I Analyzed My Browser Cookies - 1,572 Trackers Found. Here's What They Know About Me.

#privacy #python #opensource #security

6 min read

Jan 1

Stop building wrappers. I’m building a 132-modality AGI core from my bedroom.

#ai #agi #python #opensource

2 min read

Dec 31 '25

Your First Real Project – Live Edge Detection with Recording

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Feras E. S. Alawadi

Nov 27 '25

I Built the Linux of Agent Protocols: Why MXP is 37x Faster Than JSON

#ai #agents #rust #opensource

1 min read

Aaron Gustafson

Jan 2

A Production-Ready Web Component Starter Template

#webcomponents #javascript #opensource #developertools

3 min read

Jan 1

Hacking the Trades: Why I Chose Python for HVAC Field Automation

#python #opensource #automation

2 min read

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