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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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Apr 11

Free, Open-Source LocalStack Alternative for AWS Testing

#aws #testing #opensource #localstack

4 min read

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Apr 11

How I built an open-source observability layer for AI agents (and why it’s needed)

#ai #opensource #agents #langchain

4 min read

Apr 12

Crucix: An Open OSINT Dashboard Aggregating 27 Real-Time Data Sources

#osint #security #datascience #opensource

1 min read

MUSGRAVTE

Apr 11

Releasing react-modern-audio-player v2.0.0 - Lighter, Waveforms, and Truly Customizable

#showdev #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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AllenLiao

Apr 11

I Built a Local Web Debug Tool for Serial, TCP, and UDP

#arduino #esp32 #opensource #python

4 min read

Moca

Apr 11

Geul: A Native Compiled Language Designed Around Korean Grammar (SOV, Particle Binding, Self-Hosting)

#programming #opensource #languages #computerscience

3 min read

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Apr 11

I Build AI Agents for a Living. Then I Decided to Build an Actual Brain.

#ai #neuroscience #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Muhammed Rasin O M

Apr 11

The Best Python Library for Generating Quick Synthetic Data in 2026

#python #datascience #testing #opensource

11 min read

Manikse

Apr 11

Archon Hits #1 on GitHub: A Teardown of "AI Harnesses" vs "Cognitive Operating Systems"

#ai #architecture #python #opensource

4 min read

Apr 12

We don’t need better logs. We need evidence.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #devops

1 min read

Scott

Apr 11

One line to add post-quantum audit trails to any Python AI agent

#ai #python #security #opensource

2 min read

krit.k83 (ΚρητικόςIGB)

Apr 11

I launched an open source CLI tool with zero audience — here's what happened in 10 days

#showdev #opensource #python #beginners

3 min read

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Apr 11

I got tired of Googling the same tools every day, so I built my own collection

#webdev #devops #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Pranava Swaroopa

Apr 12

Dockerized robotics development should be easy!

#showdev #docker #robotics #opensource

3 min read

Midas126

Apr 11

Beyond the Hype: Building a Practical AI-Powered Codebase Assistant from Scratch

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

5 min read

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