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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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Vilius

May 4

Managing 150+ AI Agent Skills at Scale — What Broke, What I Built

#ai #python #opensource #sqlite

5 min read

Cover image for Building Scync: Why I made a Zero-Knowledge Secrets Manager for us, Developers.

May 5

Building Scync: Why I made a Zero-Knowledge Secrets Manager for us, Developers.

#opensource #security #webdev #tooling

7 min read

May 5

Quizlet is gatekeeping more and more, so i made an extension

#showdev #typescript #productivity #opensource

7 min read

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Ali Malik

May 5

VS Code extension that compiles structured prompts — no AI calls, no API keys

#ai #vscode #promptengineering #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I imagined a P2P network for sharing AI inference and made a prototype

May 5

I imagined a P2P network for sharing AI inference and made a prototype

#showdev #ai #opensource #discuss

5 min read

May 5

Mcp-sync: One Config File to Rule Them All

#mcp #claude #workflows #opensource

8 min read

Lee Powell

May 5

Why I built rtfstruct, fifteen years after writing the RTF parser inside Scrivener

#python #ai #opensource #programming

9 min read

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Sumant

May 5

Building an Async Rust Runtime on io_uring: 7.5ms vs Tokio's 14.9ms

#rust #linux #opensource #programming

7 min read

May 5

Five Eyes published the policy on 1 May. Mickai filed the engineering 4 weeks earlier.

#ai #security #opensource #uk

2 min read

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Tommaso Bertocchi

May 5

9 Open-Source Tools to Own Your Stack (and Kill Your Cloud Bills) in 2026

#opensource #devops #security #productivity

7 min read

May 5

ARForge v1.5.0 — mode conditions, external package layouts, and pretty-printed ARXML

#autosar #embedded #opensource #automotive

4 min read

Shuvo

May 5

Automate Apache/Nginx Virtual Server host in Seconds.

#opensource #automation #linux

2 min read

Arya Mehta

May 5

Building a multi-step AI pipeline workspace + 2 OSS fixes to RocketRide server

#showdev #ai #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

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flik2002

May 5

I Stopped Wasting Tokens on Bad Prompts — Here's How I Found Out

#ai #productivity #coding #opensource

3 min read

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Tulasinath Reddy

May 5

I turned my Trilium docs into an AI-assisted site with one JS file

#javascript #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

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