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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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Feb 19

Inside the Bitaxe: How an Open-Source ASIC Miner Goes from Schematic to Solo Block

#bitcoin #iot #opensource #sideprojects

7 min read

Feb 19

OpenClaw vs PicoClaw: Edge AI Decision Guide (2026)

#ai #edgecomputing #opensource #comparison

15 min read

Feb 19

Why I Stopped Paying for Software: 6 Open Source Tools That Changed How I Work

#opensource #productivity #tools #beginners

3 min read

Feb 18

AI Content Integrity Protocol (ACIP)

#opensource #ai #agents #security

9 min read

Feb 18

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: February 11–17, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

6 min read

Chad

Feb 18

I just wanted Claude Code on my phone. 10 days and 2,000 downloads later, here's the story.

#claudecode #opensource #productivity #webdev

7 min read

Feb 19

Automating entire workflows with ralph-starter

#ralphwiggum #ai #automation #opensource

8 min read

Luciano Federico Pereira

Feb 19

In Praise of “Hobbyist Languages”: The Unsung Heroes of Software Development

#opensource #community #motivation #career

4 min read

Juan Isidoro García Cifuentes

Feb 19

AI agents are wasting 90% of tokens on your navbar — I built a protocol to fix it

#ai #opensource #webdev #llm

3 min read

Feb 19

How We Fixed Two UX Anti-Patterns in Our Video Library

#react #webdev #opensource #ux

4 min read

Mack

Feb 19

5 Free Developer Tools I Built (and Why I'm Making Them Open Source)

#webdev #opensource #tools #productivity

2 min read

Akshay Kolhapure

Feb 19

Stop reading stack traces — this tool explains them

#javascript #node #opensource #errorlogs

1 min read

Feb 20

Mastering Workflow Automation: A Deep Dive into Open-Source Alternatives

#automation #devops #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Setasena Randata

Feb 18

I Built a Typing Game to Help People Discover Open Source

#opensource #webdev #gamedev #javascript

2 min read

Feb 17

Introducing Quackback: Open-Source Feedback Platform with a Built-in MCP Server

#opensource #selfhosted #webdev #productivity

3 min read

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