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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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TobiasBond

May 3

How I Automated the Entire Web3 Frontend Stack Migration in One Command

#web3 #ethereum #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Snow

May 3

hello dev.to, be good to me.

#javascript #mobile #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Lyra

May 3

Stop Guessing Whether Debian Package Files Changed: Practical `debsums` for Integrity Checks

#linux #security #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Matthew

May 3

Building Phonton: a local-first AI coding CLI that verifies diffs before review

#ai #cli #opensource #rust

1 min read

nagasatish chilakamarti

May 3

TealTiger v1.2: Deterministic Governance for AI Agents — Architecture Deep Dive

#aigovernance #opensource #security #typescript

4 min read

Cover image for Meet Billmora: A modern, open-source alternative to WHMCS & Blesta

Mafly

May 3

Meet Billmora: A modern, open-source alternative to WHMCS & Blesta

#discuss #laravel #opensource #automation

1 min read

Cover image for What Happens When You Force All Math Through One Operator?

Biswajyoti Nath

May 3

What Happens When You Force All Math Through One Operator?

#python #opensource #computerscience #machinelearning

1 min read

Cover image for I rewrote mp3gain in Rust — 'compatible' turned out to be three different things

May 2

I rewrote mp3gain in Rust — 'compatible' turned out to be three different things

#showdev #rust #podcast #opensource

4 min read

Haru-neo

May 3

I wrote a custom CUDA inference engine to run Qwen3.5-27B on $130 mining cards

#ai #llm #opensource

5 min read

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Mikhail Sapunov

May 7

I Shipped My First Indie Product. Here Is What Actually Happened.

#ai #javascript #opensource #buildinpublic

4 min read

Suh0161

May 2

KintsugiBot: an open-source GitHub agent that turns issues into pull requests

#showdev #opensource #ai #github

1 min read

Ilia Alshanetsky

May 2

Teaching AI Agents How to Engineer

#showdev #ai #opensource #claude

8 min read

Ian Parent

May 2

What changed in Iris v0.4.0

#mcp #aiagents #observability #opensource

6 min read

Cover image for 🚀 Building "LISA" — My Personal Jarvis on Linux

May 3

🚀 Building "LISA" — My Personal Jarvis on Linux

#buildinpublic #ai #ubuntu #opensource

2 min read

Cassidy Williams

May 3

Shipping todometer, version 3!

#showdev #electron #todometer #opensource

7 min read

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