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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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BotConductStandard

Apr 17

GPTBot follows content invisible to humans. TwitterBot and ClaudeBot don t.

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Daniel iyakwari

Apr 17

Solving the Reliability Gap: How I’m Building Resilient Fintech for High-Latency Markets

#webdev #ai #saas #opensource

2 min read

Chinyere John-Nnah

Apr 18

I Automated 90% of The Ethers.js v5 v6 Migration using Codemods and AI

#ethereum #web3 #opensource #typescript

6 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 17

I Let an Open-Source GUI Agent Play Mahjong. Here's What Happened.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #fun

4 min read

Apr 17

clerk: Auto-Summarize Your Claude Code Sessions

#cli #opensource #ai #productivity

3 min read

Matthew

Apr 18

SIGNAL; shrinking agent skills so context stays for code

#ai #opensource #productivity #claude

1 min read

Sakti Chourasia

Apr 17

I got tired of every "draggable" library being 30KB and opinionated about my CSS - so I built react-driftkit

#opensource #typescript #react #javascript

5 min read

Apr 17

Why Every AI Image Generator Fails at Text (And One That Finally Doesn't)

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Apr 17

Turn Raspberry Pi into an AI-Native Edge IDS with NAPSE

#opensource #security #ids #linux

6 min read

Jedsadakorn Suma

Apr 17

I built a runbook generator with FastAPI and Groq — here's how it works

#devops #python #fastapi #opensource

2 min read

Apr 17

How I Built an AI-Powered Job Search Pipeline That Tailors My Resume for Every Application

#python #opensource #ai #career

3 min read

Apr 17

Axios CVE-2025–62718: The Silent SSRF Bug That Could Be Hiding in Your Node.js App Right Now

#webdev #axios #opensource #programming

4 min read

cz

Apr 17

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Complete Review: Alibaba's Open-Source Coding Model That Beats Frontier Giants

#ai #opensource #coding #qwen

9 min read

Atlas

Apr 17

The Agent Economy Has a $0 Problem

#ai #agents #opensource #web3

4 min read

Apr 17

I made DuckDuckGo's invisible tracker blocking visible, here is how it looks

#privacy #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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