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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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Ryan Swift

Apr 29

Forking Paseo: Mobile vibe coding for me

#ai #agents #vibecoding #opensource

5 min read

Apr 30

Function Calling Harness 2: CoT Compliance from 9.91% to 100%

#ai #typescript #programming #opensource

20 min read

vincanger for Wasp

Apr 30

They said AI Would Kill SaaS Boilerplates. It's Doing the Opposite.

#ai #opensource #saas #webdev

4 min read

Apr 30

I built my own self-hosted comment system as an alternative to Disqus (and you can too)

#webdev #opensource #node

3 min read

Reza

Apr 30

Beyond MediatR: Why We Built ConduitR for the Next Generation of .NET

#dotnet #performance #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Pico

Apr 30

I audited 25 top npm packages with a zero-install CLI. Here's who passes.

#npm #security #javascript #opensource

4 min read

RoarLyte

Apr 30

Official Release of LyteNyte Grid Version 2.1

#ai #webdev #opensource #react

6 min read

Harald Roessler

Apr 30

Inside a2a-acl — a drop-in Express library for agent-to-agent authorization

#security #opensource #javascript #agents

6 min read

Oresztesz Margaritisz

Apr 30

Advancing Your Own AWS AI Architect with DrawIO Skills and Living Documentation

#ai #architecture #aws #opensource

10 min read

Jude Hilgendorf

Apr 30

I Built a Chrome Extension That Bulk-Cleans Gmail in One Click (and Why You Probably Need It)

#chromeextension #javascript #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Apr 30

Stop re-explaining your project to AI

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Ananya for OWASP BLT

Apr 30

Accepted into GSoC 2026: From First PR to Official Selection

#gsoc2026 #summerofcode2026 #owasp #opensource

2 min read

Apr 30

LLM Aggregator: aggregate RSS feeds and summarise them with LLMs

#showdev #ai #opensource #go

2 min read

Apr 30

Why your Bluetooth MIDI keyboard silently drops notes on Windows

#dotnet #midi #opensource #microsoft

7 min read

Muhammad Subhan Naeem

Apr 30

I Built a Free Quran Web App with the SERN Stack — Here's What I Learned

#webdev #react #opensource #programming

3 min read

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