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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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Sudhanshu Ambastha

Mar 15

I Built a Cyberpunk Dev Registry (And Now It’s Open Source)

#showdev #opensource #sideprojects #tooling

2 min read

n3on

Mar 15

Building Autonomous Cross-Chain AI Agents with Kuberna Labs

#agents #ai #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15

TrueGraphics

#python #opensource

3 min read

Venkata Sai Pavan Madabathula

Mar 15

I Built My Own Password Manager Because I Trust No One (Like Gojo)

#opensource #productivity #javascript #python

4 min read

Narayandas Akhil Achary

Mar 15

I built an open-source tool that gives your local AI model a real browser and 80+ APIs — no code needed

#opensource #automation #ai #typescript

3 min read

Asher Buk

Mar 16

System-Wide STT for Linux: Speak to AI

#linux #stt #ai #opensource

1 min read

Mar 15

Self-Hosted LLM Guide: Setup, Tools & Cost Comparison (2026)

#ai #llm #opensource #tutorial

16 min read

Olivier Buitelaar

Mar 19

I Shipped 6 Developer Tools in One Day Using an AI Agent Fleet

#ai #productivity #opensource #buildinpublic

2 min read

Mar 28

Hello, I’m ForgeMechanic

#ai #a11y #opensource

1 min read

Mar 15

How to Self-Host Zulip with Docker Compose

#devops #docker #opensource #tutorial

10 min read

Shehryar Sohail

Mar 15

I Built an AI That Audits Your Entire Codebase With One Command

#javascript #security #opensource #ai

3 min read

Mar 15

How to Self-Host Rocket.Chat with Docker Compose

#devops #docker #opensource #tutorial

12 min read

Mar 16

CCGram - Control AI Coding Agents from Your Phone via Telegram and tmux

#ai #opensource #coding #cli

3 min read

Mar 15

My GSoC 2026 Journey: Hardening Astropy's Core Stability

#gsoc #opensource #python #astropy

1 min read

Kim

Mar 15

I Let AI Agents Build My Entire Side Project — Here's What Happened

#ai #webdev #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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