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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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Mar 2

🧙‍♂️ Docker Wizard: Because Setting Up Dev Environments Shouldn't Feel Like Dark Magic

#docker #go #opensource #devtool

4 min read

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Francisco Júnior

Feb 17

Adeus CleanMyMac: Como Otimizar seu macOS de Graça com um Script de Elite (Open Source)

#macos #bash #performance #opensource

7 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 12

You Have Accounts on 34 Services You Forgot About. 8 Were Breached.

#privacy #security #python #opensource

2 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 12

Google Can See 78% of Your Browsing History — I Built a Tool to Prove It

#privacy #security #python #opensource

2 min read

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Mar 12

A Developer's Guide to Post-Quantum Migration

#devops #security #opensource #python

5 min read

Mar 23

Ujorm3: A New Lightweight ORM for JavaBeans and Records

#showdev #database #java #opensource

5 min read

Mar 23

How to Build a Zero-Dependency npm Package in 2026

#node #opensource #tutorial #programming

8 min read

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Murillo Brandão

Mar 20

I built a 1.7kb VDOM-less framework, it went "viral", and Reddit banned me 🤣

#javascript #webdev #opensource #programming

3 min read

Sushil Kulkarni

Mar 23

I got tired of manually converting HTML to GIFs, so I built an open-source CLI to do it instantly

#showdev #automation #cli #opensource

5 min read

Mar 23

The reason your live AI demo spins has nothing to do with your model

#python #automation #n8n #opensource

5 min read

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Philipp Enderle

Mar 2

Your Multi-Agent Framework Handles Operations. What About the Other Five?

#ai #agents #opensource #llm

8 min read

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Feb 17

cognitive-debt: Measure Code Readability Before It Becomes a Problem

#webdev #opensource #codequality #devtool

5 min read

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אחיה כהן

Mar 12

Building WhatsApp Automation for Small Businesses: Lessons from the Israeli Market

#whatsapp #automation #opensource #startup

4 min read

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Feb 17

What Is Wiggum CLI? The Autonomous Coding Agent That Ships Features While You Sleep

#ai #opensource #cli #coding

3 min read

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Sinthes

Feb 17

I made Respectlytics (Privacy-First Mobile Analytics) open source and FREE for self-hosting

#analytics #opensource #mobile #django

2 min read

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