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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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Vladimir Iglovikov

Mar 28

Designing Image Augmentation Pipelines for Generalization

#machinelearning #deeplearning #opensource #computervision

55 min read

PostQuant

Mar 4

I scanned popular open source projects for quantum-vulnerable crypto. Here's what I found.

#security #opensource #cryptography #devops

3 min read

Gan

Mar 18

I built a pipeline orchestrator to improve code quality beyond single-shot prompts

#webdev #ai #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Barbara Wu

Mar 6

The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot: Why Nobody Is Using AI to Accelerate Tooth Regeneration

#ai #biotech #science #opensource

10 min read

Ivaan Srivastava

Mar 9

Google Is Closing Android — Here's What You Need to Know

#android #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Dre

Mar 4

Zero-Code-Change AI Security: Cerberus Now Runs as an HTTP Proxy

#ai #security #opensource #cybersecurity

2 min read

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Mar 18

Tired of staring at GitHub Copilot? I built an extension to ping my smart watch when it's done

#showdev #vscode #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 5

Apache DolphinScheduler February 2026: What the Community Shipped

#ai #programming #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource

3 min read

Mahipal Mahipal

Mar 4

How I Built an Open-Source Cybersecurity Skills Database for AI Agents (611+ Skills)

#cybersecurity #security #opensource #ai

5 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 5

Part 4 | Why State Machines Power Reliable Scheduling Systems

#architecture #dataengineering #opensource #systemdesign

6 min read

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Pratham

Mar 18

I built an open-source extension that adds syntax highlighting and AI code explanation to any file

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Mar 4

Here is ESLint-like tool for composing AI agent rules — here's why

#ai #devtools #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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Aditya

Mar 17

Send Bulk Emails in Python Using mail-senderpy

#opensource #python #tutorial #cli

3 min read

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Bellamer

Mar 18

Building Pattern Atlas: An AI-Powered, Browser-Only Design Pattern Reference

#designpatterns #javascript #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 4

You Have a Legal Right to Delete Your Data. Here'\''s a Tool That Does It For You.

#privacy #gdpr #python #opensource

3 min read

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