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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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Elias Wu

Mar 22

I built a small Python library for factor research — mainly because I got tired of stitching everything together myself.

#discuss #python #opensource #programming

2 min read

Warhol

Mar 22

A VC-Backed Startup Just Open-Sourced What I Built in My Apartment

#ai #opensource #security #devops

3 min read

lulzasaur

Mar 23

I Built a Gaming Platform Where AI Agents Play Each Other

#opensource

3 min read

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Subham

Mar 22

I Built a Free Open Source Tool That Saved Me From Deleting My Production Database (Again)

#opensource #database #ai #javascript

5 min read

Urban

Mar 21

OpenHabitTracker is more user friendly now with better UI

#opensource #productivity #privacy #habittracking

2 min read

Adarsh Chaudhary

Mar 26

I built a zero-dependency Groq API wrapper for Node.js — simple-groq

#node #javascript #opensource #typescript

1 min read

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NocoBase

Mar 22

NocoBase 2.0 Beginner Tutorial - Chapter 3: Building Pages

#ai #opensource #nocode #tutorial

11 min read

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Mar 22

How I Built a Local-First Movie Library Manager in Python

#showdev #python #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Mar 26

8 Best Free & Open Source Log Management Tools (2026)

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tooling

13 min read

Cover image for AI Agent Tools Have No Permission Model. Here's an Open Standard to Fix It.

Mar 21

AI Agent Tools Have No Permission Model. Here's an Open Standard to Fix It.

#ai #security #python #opensource

5 min read

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Jani Giannoudis

Mar 21

Payroll Engine: From Open-Source Prototype to Production-Ready

#opensource #dotnet #payroll #architecture

6 min read

Mar 21

uignore — a .gitignore for AI coding tools

#ai #security #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Sid Padmanabhuni

Mar 22

I Built an Open-Source Security Gateway for MCP Because the Ecosystem Desperately Needs One

#mcp #security #react #opensource

2 min read

vnatco

Mar 21

Feedback needed for my 12yo project that I completely re-wrote this year.

#webdev #javascript #devops #opensource

2 min read

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Alex @ Vibe Agent Making

Mar 21

How We Built a Cryptographic Provenance Protocol for AI Agents

#ai #cryptography #opensource #agents

3 min read

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