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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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Cover image for I Built a Go Project Scaffolding Tool (Because the Ecosystem Needed One)

Aditya

Apr 28

I Built a Go Project Scaffolding Tool (Because the Ecosystem Needed One)

#go #opensource #ai #productivity

4 min read

Cover image for GoGPU - 790K Lines of Pure Go: Multi-Window GPU Apps, DXIL Compiler, and Why We Don't Need CGO

Apr 28

GoGPU - 790K Lines of Pure Go: Multi-Window GPU Apps, DXIL Compiler, and Why We Don't Need CGO

#go #opensource #programming #webdev

13 min read

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Vinh Nguyen for Stewie

Apr 28

Behaviors, decisions, execution: three layers of AI-safe engineering memory

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

6 min read

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Mark Odera

Apr 28

Why I built an open-source alternative to Auth0

#opensource #auth0challenge #security #typescript

2 min read

Cover image for I read 600 GitHub release notes so you don't have to: introducing dep-diff-mcp

Kaustubh Ghodke

Apr 28

I read 600 GitHub release notes so you don't have to: introducing dep-diff-mcp

#mcp #ai #development #opensource

6 min read

Peter Nasarah Dashe

May 11

🚀 Permi v0.3.0 – Major Improvements to JS Scanning, AI Accuracy, and Speed

#security #opensource #python #webdev

2 min read

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megaphone

Apr 28

KIOKU v0.7.0: completing multi-agent — Gemini and Codex CLI now get automatic session logging

#claudecode #ai #opensource #mcp

10 min read

Cover image for Stop bundling SheetJS for simple Excel exports: a 5 KB alternative

Apr 28

Stop bundling SheetJS for simple Excel exports: a 5 KB alternative

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Doug Trier

Apr 28

Fantasty Football feedback

#showdev #fantasyfootball #sideprojects #opensource

1 min read

depmedicdev-byte

Apr 28

I shipped 4 things this week: a GitHub Action, an Azure Pipelines auditor, a CircleCI auditor, and a comparison page nobody asked for

#githubactions #devops #ci #opensource

4 min read

Kenneth Belitzky for StructKit

Apr 28

Building a Terraform Module Scaffold with structkit

#terraform #devops #iac #opensource

2 min read

Kunal

Apr 28

Open Source Sustainability Crisis: What Redis, HashiCorp, and a Backdoor Reveal About 2026

#opensource #softwaresustainability #developercommunity #licensing

7 min read

Cover image for TradingGoose-Market: canonical ticker identity across market data providers

Bruz

Apr 29

TradingGoose-Market: canonical ticker identity across market data providers

#showdev #ai #opensource #nextjs

11 min read

Cover image for My LLM Keeps Failing in Production. Here's What I Built to Fix It Automatically.

Apr 28

My LLM Keeps Failing in Production. Here's What I Built to Fix It Automatically.

#ai #opensource #mlops #productivity

5 min read

Cover image for Open-Source LLMs You Can Actually Run Today vs. Waiting for Grok 3

Alan West

Apr 28

Open-Source LLMs You Can Actually Run Today vs. Waiting for Grok 3

#ai #opensource #llm #machinelearning

5 min read

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