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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.

submission guidelines

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 4

Real-time, open source, AI video generation is here and here's what you can build with it

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #performance

5 min read

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Feb 4

How We Built an AI Orchestration Layer with 17 Agents and 61 Commands

#ai #opensource #javascript #devtools

9 min read

Feb 4

Building the First TypeScript LTI 1.3 Library (So You Don't Have To)

#opensource #typescript #node #edtech

3 min read

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Younes Ben Tlili

Feb 17

I built a CLI that tells you if your release is safe to deploy — in 2 seconds

#devops #opensource #testing #productivity

3 min read

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Ponikar

Feb 4

What the heck is OpenClaw/Clawbot/MoltBot?

#ai #openai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Feb 27

The AI Coding Model Wars: How Open Source Is Closing the Gap on Proprietary Coding Models

#news #ai #opensource #llm

10 min read

Kai

Feb 4

Agent Memory Kit v2.1: Stop Searching for 5 Minutes, Start Finding in 5 Seconds

#ai #agents #opensource #bash

2 min read

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Alistair

Mar 1

Making London's hidden film clubs discoverable

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #opensource

4 min read

EntScrapper Support

Feb 4

ENT Scrapper : une app Node.js pour centraliser emploi du temps, notes et devoirs depuis un ENT Scolengo

#showdev #node #opensource #webscraping

1 min read

DASWU

Feb 4

JuiceFS Enterprise 5.3: 500B+ Files per File System & RDMA Support

#opensource #architecture

8 min read

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Feb 4

France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace - With Django

#django #python #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Arkforge

Feb 18

5 EU AI Act Obligations Every Developer Must Know in 2026

#euaiact #compliance #ai #opensource

5 min read

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Feb 4

Sandbox: A Tiny WebGL Library That Just Runs Your Shaders

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Feb 4

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Feb 27

State management in Refly codebase - Part 1.1

#opensource #codebase #architecture #statemanagement

3 min read

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