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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 3

🤖 Your AI Agent Just Joined a Social Network Without You (Meet Moltbook)

#ai #opensource #security #devops

3 min read

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YOЯNOC

Feb 3

Building Open Social for AI Agents (Moltbook 💔🦞 BlueClaw 💙🦞)

#ai #opensource #atprotocol #agents

3 min read

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Dhruv Agnihotri

Feb 3

I Built a Free Auth0 Alternative That Gives You 20+ Routes in One Line of Code

#opensource #authentication #react #python

15 min read

Cover image for Introducing Ctrovalidate – Lightweight JavaScript Form Validation Library By Ctrotech

Odejobi Abiola Samuel

Feb 3

Introducing Ctrovalidate – Lightweight JavaScript Form Validation Library By Ctrotech

#webdev #javascript #a11y #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for The Seniority Lie: Why your 10 years of experience might be a career death trap

kargathara Aakash

Feb 2

The Seniority Lie: Why your 10 years of experience might be a career death trap

#ai #webdev #future #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Why I built my own CLI to clean Docker & Node garbage (instead of using CleanMyMac)

Aitor Santana Cabrera

Feb 3

Why I built my own CLI to clean Docker & Node garbage (instead of using CleanMyMac)

#programming #bash #opensource #cli

2 min read

Ariel Sh

Feb 2

Balagan Agent 🌪️ Chaos Engineering for AI Agents

#aiops #devops #agents #opensource

2 min read

Gaurav Chile | InfraForgeLabs

Feb 3

Behind the Vision

#webdev #opensource #devops #automation

2 min read

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Feb 2

Getting High-Quality Output from 7B Models: A Production-Grade Prompting Playbook

#ai #llm #promptengineering #opensource

6 min read

Arkforge

Feb 7

Free Uptime Monitoring API — No Signup Required

#webdev #api #monitoring #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for How I Built an AI-Powered Email Ingestion System with Spring Boot, Angular and Gemini

Hari babu Thatikonda

Feb 2

How I Built an AI-Powered Email Ingestion System with Spring Boot, Angular and Gemini

#java #opensource #ai #systemdesign

3 min read

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Feb 2

My First Godot Engine Contribution (and how YOU can start)

#opensource #godotengine #beginners

2 min read

Feb 2

[AutoBe] achieved 100% compilation success of backend generation with "qwen3-next-80b-a3b"

#ai #backend #llm #opensource

4 min read

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John Napiorkowski

Feb 2

PAGI 0.001016: Navigating the Future::IO Configuration Problem

#architecture #devjournal #opensource #programming

6 min read

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Jimmy Wei

Feb 6

Why AI SRE tools don't work (and what we're doing differently)

#opensource #devops #ai #sre

4 min read

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