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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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ml3dev

Apr 16

I built an open source tab suspender after The Great Suspender got removed for malware

#productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jude Hilgendorf

Apr 16

I Built an Offline Threat Hunting CLI That Parses EVTX, JSON, Syslog & CEF Logs

#cybersecurity #python #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

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Makoto Yui

Apr 16

Introducing Graflow: An Orchestration Engine for AI Agent Workflows

#ai #python #opensource #agents

4 min read

K. C. V. Abeysinghe

Apr 16

How to Build an Android Telegram Client Without Touching C++ (A Kotlin-First Approach)

#android #kotlin #opensource #telegram

1 min read

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Apr 17

Porting Anthropic's Skill Creator from Python to TypeScript

#opencode #typescript #ai #opensource

4 min read

Michael Ilerioluwa Adeniyi

May 10

AWS AIdeas Global Competition

#ai #opensource #career #aws

3 min read

Ryan Park

Apr 16

I found that one Excel file was eating 85% of my indexing time tags: opensource, dotnet, productivity, showdev

#showdev #dotnet #opensource #performance

4 min read

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GEM² Inc.

Apr 30

Claude Skills Fail Silently. Here Is My Solution.

#claudecode #cloudskills #devtools #opensource

4 min read

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ALVARO

Apr 16

Configuración de opencode sin complicaciones

#opensource #tooling #tutorial

3 min read

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Apr 16

That viral free AI stack tweet is 90% right — here is the 10% nobody talks about

#ai #webdev #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Apr 16

Milestone 2: Standardizing Telemetry Output with JSON, Prometheus, and OpenMetrics

#telemetry #opensource #devops #python

2 min read

Apr 16

I made an Gemini Powered Music DAW

#ai #opensource #music

1 min read

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Prath

Apr 16

Hmm....🚨 OAuth vs Email Signup Conflict — Security or Bad UX? (Need your opinion)

#webdev #github #appwritehack #opensource

2 min read

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Apr 16

I Was Tired of Logs — So I Built a Real-Time Debugging Panel for .NET

#showdev #dotnet #opensource #tooling

1 min read

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Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission

May 7

Building a Fully Offline AI Coding Assistant with Gemma 4, No Cloud Required 🤖

#tutorial #opensource #ai #webdev

7 min read

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