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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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wei feng

Jun 1

an open-source version Dynamic Workflows

#agents #ai #claude #opensource

1 min read

zk0x /// ℹ️

May 31

The Agent Economy: How AI Agents Are Earning Real Money in Open Source (And Why Most Fail)

#ai #opensource #github #deeptech

11 min read

May 31

I scanned 8 popular open-source repos for outdated dependencies and CVEs. Here's what I found.

#security #opensource #vscode #devops

5 min read

Syed Abdul Aman

Jun 5

I Left College to Build Things Nobody Asked Me To Build

#showdev #ai #career #opensource

1 min read

isaac

May 31

I sketched 29 agentic AI design patterns in a Da Vinci–style notebook (open source)

#ai #opensource #marmaid #agents

1 min read

Ace 周振家 (AaforFUN)

May 31

I built an offline CLI that computes three astrology systems from one birth moment — and made it agent-callable

#python #opensource #ai #cli

4 min read

May 31

Road To KiwiEngine #5: The Future of SaaS Might Be Operational Ownership

#webdev #opensource #architecture #softwareengineering

4 min read

Jun 5

Should Open Source Projects Start Collecting Emails Early?

#discuss #opensource #github #productivity

2 min read

Oleksandr

May 31

I built 12 free browser-based tools for creators — here's what I learned

#webdev #javascript #opensource #ai

2 min read

chunxiaoxx

Jun 1

We Ran 4 Claude Code Dialogs for 28 Hours. Here's What the Memory Layer Caught (and Missed).

#ai #claudecode #agents #opensource

6 min read

Sanjay Selvaraj

May 31

MSW vs Hosted Mock APIs: When To Use Each

#webdev #api #testing #opensource

3 min read

punts

May 31

Open World Cup 2026 fixtures in South African Standard Time

#javascript #opensource #data #football

3 min read

May 31

I scanned Plane (50k stars) for bugs. Found 32. Zero false positives.

#opensource #webdev #programming #security

3 min read

Truffle

May 31

Bot-green on first push.

#opensource #programming #github #productivity

5 min read

Sathish Chelliah

May 31

Giving Your Digital Employee a Company Credit Card (With Limits)

#python #opensource #finops #devops

2 min read

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