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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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Oct 2

Maintaining Arch Linux AUR Packages: Updates for python-nspektr and rapidyaml

#archlinux #opensource #cpp #python

2 min read

Oct 2

Maintaining Arch Linux AUR Packages: Updates for python-nspektr and rapidyaml

#archlinux #opensource #cpp #python

2 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Nov 5

How Hidden Code Decides Who's in Charge: The Silent Governance of AI Through Function-Calling Schemas

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

4 min read

Андрей Воробъев

Oct 2

Just launched: UmkaBuild GUI — a soulful Python-to-EXE builder

#python #opensource #automation

1 min read

Steven Hur

Oct 2

My First Pull Request for Open Source Project

#codenewbie #github #opensource #devjournal

1 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Nov 6

Charting the Course of Catastrophe: Predicting Marine Invasions with Open Data

#datascience #environment #gis #opensource

2 min read

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Nov 6

Introducing the MindsEye Notification Project — Adaptive Email Automation for the Future of AI Systems

#discuss #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Faye Hall

Oct 2

Tinker Terms Readiness Checklist

#thinkingmachine #ai #opensource #tinker

1 min read

AskPaul

Oct 2

Enhancing MiroFlow: Tracking Data Sources for AskPaul App

#ai #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Nov 4

TailView UI: Open-Source Rails Components with Hotwire Magic 🚀

#rails #hotwire #opensource #tailwindcss

5 min read

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Krzysztof Nowicki

Oct 2

DocWire SDK New Release: Turning Pipelines into Secure HTTP Services

#cpp #opensource #cloudnative #http

2 min read

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Nov 5

Building a Production-Ready AI-Powered Robo-Advisor: From Concept to Cloud Deployment

#architecture #python #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Open Source SPL

Nov 5

Lightweight, Low-Cost, Realtime Hot Data Reporting Solution--SPL Reporting

#programming #devops #opensource #spl

4 min read

Oct 2

`NamedError` class in opencode codebase.

#cli #opensource #namederror

2 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

adriens

Oct 29

⏳geol, the cli to efficiently manage EOLs like a boss

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #devops

3 min read

Safwan Abdulghani

Oct 14

Rust-Style Error Handling in C# - Why SharpResults Makes Your Code Bulletproof

#csharp #dotnet #opensource

10 min read

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Michael Etokakpan

Oct 2

How I Stopped Manually Checking WooCommerce Stock Levels (and Finally Slept Better)

#woocommerce #wordpress #opensource #programming

2 min read

Cover image for BoltJS: pure JavaScript, components, and zero compilation

Oct 24

BoltJS: pure JavaScript, components, and zero compilation

#javascript #webdev #frontend #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Never Forget a Thing: Building AI Agents with Hybrid Memory Using Strands Agents

Danilo Poccia for AWS

Oct 31

Never Forget a Thing: Building AI Agents with Hybrid Memory Using Strands Agents

#ai #aws #opensource #python

10 min read

IAM VAAR

Oct 1

I built an opensource Android AI automation agent

#ai #android #opensource #programming

3 min read

Cover image for The Real State of Helm Chart Reliability (2025): Hidden Risks in 100+ Open‑Source Charts

Nov 4

The Real State of Helm Chart Reliability (2025): Hidden Risks in 100+ Open‑Source Charts

#kubernetes #reliability #sre #opensource

23 min read

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Nov 4

Nitro V3 is Here

#webdev #typescript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Ben

Oct 2

New Open Source Project Opened

#discuss #opensource #ai #tooling

1 min read

Konstantinos Passadis | Azure MVP | MCT

Oct 14

Orbit v0.3.0 - Next-Generation Version Control System

#vcs #orb #rust #opensource

5 min read

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Nov 4

Revamping the Organization Dashboard for OWASP BLT: My GSoC 2025 Journey

#opensource #security #webdev

4 min read

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