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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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Feb 16

Vouch: Mitchell Hashimoto’s Experiment in Restoring Trust to Open Source

#discuss #ai #opensource

3 min read

Feb 17

I Tried Coding With AI Glasses. Here’s What Actually Happened.

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Feb 17

Introducing Quackback: Open-Source Feedback Platform with a Built-in MCP Server

#opensource #selfhosted #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Feb 17

How We Added Per-Video Download Controls

#go #webdev #opensource #security

4 min read

Louis Weston for Distr

Feb 17

Alerts for self-hosted customer deployments

#devops #opensource #containers #automation

2 min read

Praneeta Prakash for AWS

Feb 17

AWS CDK Community Update: Jan/Feb 2026!

#aws #cdk #opensource #devops

9 min read

Feb 17

I Built 23 Free Web Scrapers on Apify — Here is What I Learned

#showdev #webscraping #opensource #javascript

7 min read

Alex Dev

Feb 17

Why I Built My Own AWS Deployment Tool

#aws #typescript #serverless #opensource

7 min read

Feb 17

API Testing Tools in 2026: Why I Built My Own (After Comparing All the Popular Ones)

#api #devtools #opensource #ai

6 min read

Feb 17

AI Agents Still Can’t Use Your Stack. I Built a Fix.

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

choutos

Feb 17

When the Landlord Moves Into the Pulperia

#opensource #ai #opinion #software

7 min read

Anson Chan

Feb 17

Building a Privacy-First File Converter That Runs 100% in Your Browser

#webdev #javascript #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Feb 17

NoamVC v0.3 — We deleted 3,500 lines and the app got better

#webrtc #rust #tauri #opensource

4 min read

ykagano

Feb 17

When One API Means Different Mocks for Each Team - Designing a Distributed WireMock Setup

#showdev #opensource #testing #docker

6 min read

Amirhesam Bahmankhah

Feb 17

WPLite — A Laravel-Inspired Micro Framework for WordPress Plugin Development

#wordpress #php #laravel #opensource

8 min read

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