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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 When Code Meets Reality: Lessons from Building in the Physical World

Joyce Lin

Apr 10 '25

When Code Meets Reality: Lessons from Building in the Physical World

#robotics #iot #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Gustavo A. Gutkoski

May 9 '25

Creating an AI Assistant for Technical Documentation – Part 1: Why and How I Started This Project

#python #fastapi #ai #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for From Source to Destination: Automating File Copy with cp in Linux

Apr 10 '25

From Source to Destination: Automating File Copy with cp in Linux

#cloudwhistler #devops #linux #opensource

2 min read

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Apr 6

Why a Markdown File Beats a Message Bus

#ai #devtools #opensource #productivity

8 min read

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Apr 6

I Built a Chess Engine with 5 AI Agents — Here's What Surprised Me

#ai #rust #opensource #programming

9 min read

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May 9 '25

The Ultimate AI Experiment: When LLMs Play the Danganronpa Killing Game (Part 2)

#ai #python #nlp #opensource

21 min read

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May 9 '25

The Ultimate AI Experiment: When LLMs Play the Danganronpa Killing Game (Part 1)

#ai #python #nlp #opensource

10 min read

Gittech

May 9 '25

You’re Not Building Projects. You’re Just Doing Homework.

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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Apr 28 '25

Your First Open Source Win on GitHub: A Rad Guide to Crushing It! 🚀

#discuss #opensource #webdev #socialmedia

5 min read

May 9 '25

"Building a Lightweight Blockchain in Go from Scratch"

#go #blockchain #opensource #distributedsystems

1 min read

GitHubOpenSource

May 9 '25

Freelens: Your New Best Friend for Kubernetes Management

#kubernetes #gui #opensource #devops

3 min read

Gustavo A. Gutkoski

May 9 '25

Criando um assistente com IA para documentação técnica – Parte 1: Por que e como comecei esse projeto?

#python #fastapi #ai #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Leveling Up — Linux Commands You’ll Actually Use (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

Apr 28 '25

Leveling Up — Linux Commands You’ll Actually Use (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

2 min read

crypto programer

Apr 6

How to Get Your Open Source Project into Awesome Lists (and Why It's Worth the Effort)

#opensource #github #seo #beginners

4 min read

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Jesse Williams for Jozu

Jun 5 '25

How to Generate an AI SBOM, and What Tools to Use

#programming #ai #opensource #security

5 min read

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