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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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Gabriele Mastrapasqua

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Building a Text-to-Speech Engine in Pure C

#c #ai #tts #opensource

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hf75

Mar 10

I built a tool that turns prompts into native .NET desktop apps — live-compiled

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #ai

2 min read

Mar 10

Why AI Agents Need Zero Trust Identity (and How to Build It)

#showdev #ai #security #opensource

7 min read

Yuvraj Angad Singh

Mar 10

Your GitHub Profile Is Lying About You

#github #opensource #cli #productivity

3 min read

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#javascript #opensource #webdev #typescript

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Andrey

Mar 10

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#ai #devtools #opensource #productivity

7 min read

Anders

Mar 10

We reduced AI agent failure rate from 36% to 0% — here's the data

#ai #opensource #agents #python

2 min read

Tom Lee

Mar 10

Why Vibecoding Fails — AI Agents Need Memory and Identity

#ai #coding #opensource #devtools

3 min read

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Seryl Lns

Mar 10

Building a Rails Engine #9 -- Building the UI with Phlex & Tailwind

#rails #ruby #webdev #opensource

11 min read

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Mar 10

FOSDEM 2026

#techtalks #fosdem #opensource #camptocamp

3 min read

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Mar 10

I built an AI gateway that picks the right model for every request

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

dutchbase

Mar 10

I built an open-source CLI image converter with a Web UI (and support for AI agents)

#showdev #cli #node #opensource

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#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Mar 10

Best Enterprise MCP Gateway for Centralized RBAC Management

#ai #mcp #llm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 10

Python Dead Code: I Scanned Flask, FastAPI, and 7 Other Popular Repos — Here's What I Found

#python #security #opensource #codequality

5 min read

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