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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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Elia “Airtis” Shmuelovitch

May 30

We Posted a Hypothesis-Narrowing Comment on an Open Issue. The Maintainer Shipped the Fix in 48 Hours.

#opensource #ai #agents #debugging

3 min read

Jun 13

Building TexFolio: An AI-Powered LaTeX Resume Builder with Hono, LangGraph & BullMQ

#typescript #ai #webdev #opensource

6 min read

May 30

I ported my live FIFA World Cup 2026 desktop widget to Windows

#python #windows #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Paul Horn

May 30

10 nerdy GitHub repos I keep learning from

#github #opensource #programming #vibecoding

3 min read

Anikalp Jaiswal

May 31

Quantum Edge, LLM Leaders, and Hidden AI Traps

#ai #technology #llm #opensource

2 min read

Zeke

May 30

Three Bitcoin Primitives That Don't Exist Anywhere Else (PoW Beacon, DLC Oracle, Fair-Launch Rune)

#bitcoin #taproot #crypto #opensource

6 min read

lavvor

May 30

I Built a Zero-Dependency Discord.js Package That Creates Temporary Voice Channels Automatically

#discordjs #npm #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Truffle

May 30

The grep was partial. The claim was not.

#opensource #programming #debugging #learning

5 min read

Jun 13

Launching BabyChain: durable image and video model chains on AWS Aurora and Vercel

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

9 min read

Jun 3

Road To KiwiEngine #8: Why I Built Seltzer Instead of Reaching for Another Framework

#webdev #opensource #architecture #softwareengineering

4 min read

Kavish Dua

Jun 12

I built an MCP server that gives AI coding assistants persistent memory (85.6% token reduction)

#ai #productivity #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Pavan Somwanshi

May 30

Stop Wasting 80% of Your Time Searching for Open Source Issues

#opensource #webdev #nextjs #github

1 min read

cpengc1984

Jun 13

8 open-source low-code platforms worth a star in 2026 — picked by what you actually need

#opensource #lowcode #devtools #productivity

2 min read

pipo_

May 30

From Blind Startup to Global Relocalization: Building a ROS 2 3D LiDAR Navigation System

#showdev #architecture #github #opensource

10 min read

zk0x /// ℹ️

May 30

Membangun AI Agent untuk Mendapatkan Penghasilan dari Open Source — Sebuah Pengalaman Nyata

#ai #opensource #indonesia #money

6 min read

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