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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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Varshith V Hegde

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I Got Sick of Miro Eating 10 Minutes of Every Retro. So I Built a Corkboard for the Web.

#webdev #opensource #productivity #tutorial

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Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: May 28 - June 4, 2026

#news #database #dataengineering #opensource

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CrabPascal

Jun 4

Docs, Blog, and 2027: Closing the Loop | Docs, blog e 2027: fechando o ciclo

#pascal #documentation #opensource #roadmap

5 min read

Yo

Jun 4

Why most LLM VRAM calculators are wrong on modern models (and an open-source MIT fix)

#showdev #ai #opensource #llm

2 min read

Truffle

Jun 4

DIRTY is yours to fix.

#opensource #github #programming #devops

5 min read

CrabPascal

Jun 4

The v2.8 Hotfix Story: Security and Stability | História dos hotfixes v2.8

#pascal #opensource #devops #security

5 min read

Jun 4

I ported a macOS-only AI agent tool to Windows — here's what I learned

#ai #opensource #devtools #codingagent

3 min read

od1n

Jun 4

Building a Zero-Knowledge Password Manager with Rust and Tauri 2.0

#rust #security #tauri #opensource

4 min read

Max S.

Jun 4

We Built an Open-Source GraphQL Engine to Replace Hasura

#graphql #go #postgres #opensource

6 min read

CrabPascal

Jun 4

Audit Deep Dive: Tests and Harness | Auditoria: testes e harness

#pascal #testing #opensource #devops

6 min read

Jun 4

Building a SaaS engine in public: suspending a tenant without locking out the bystanders

#laravel #php #saas #opensource

6 min read

CrabPascal

Jun 4

Changelog 2026: A Year of Sprints | Changelog 2026: um ano de sprints

#pascal #opensource #compiler #devops

6 min read

Jun 4

AI-SLOP-DETECTOR v3.8.1: When Code Generation Gets Cheap, Structural Trust Gets Expensive

#architecture #opensource #ai #governance

8 min read

Sergei Parfenov

Jun 4

The Comments Got Good. That's How I Knew.

#discuss #ai #webdev #opensource

12 min read

cognitalk

Jun 4

Open Code创始人Dax Raad访谈

#ai #podcast #codeagent #opensource

1 min read

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