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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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Jan 16

What I Learned from Steve Yegge's Gas Town — And a Small Tool for Solo Developers

#ai #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Samuel EF. Tinnerholm

Jan 16

How I Built a "Risk-Free" Arbitrage Bot for Polymarket & Kalshi

#tutorial #javascript #opensource #api

3 min read

唐瑭

Dec 12 '25

Meet ROLL: Alibaba Efficient RL Library for LLMs

#ai #opensource #rl #developer

2 min read

Md. Mostafijur Rahman

Dec 11 '25

Resume Canvas - Open Source Resume Builder

#resume #opensource #nextjs #career

2 min read

freerave

Jan 16

I built a "Halal Mode" for VS Code to automate my spiritual habits 🕌💻

#vscode #productivity #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Dec 12 '25

State Management in Umami codebase - Part 1.4

#opensource #umami #zustand #nextjs

5 min read

Dec 17 '25

Contributing to Ubuntu — Day 3: When I didn't touch code

#opensource #devjournal #ubuntu #community

6 min read

Jan 16

Where Most Telecom Platforms Break Under Scale (And Why It’s Never Where You Expect)

#microservices #bss #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Pub

Dec 11 '25

I built an open-source directory website template with Nuxt 4 🚀

#opensource #vue #nuxt #webdev

1 min read

Tongyi Lab

Dec 12 '25

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#ai #llm #opensource #coding

5 min read

Jan 15

I Built a Geopolitical "War Room" While High on Morphine (and Then Actually Shipped It)

#showdev #ai #opensource #nextjs

7 min read

live ASMR

Dec 12 '25

I built a privacy-first AI text splitter because LLM token limits kept reducing.

#ai #productivity #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Mark

Jan 16

Multi-agent coding pipeline: Claude Code + Codex collaborate for higher accuracy and reliable deliverables [Open Source]

#agents #ai #codequality #opensource

2 min read

Navneet Singh Rajput

Dec 11 '25

ScreenUI Is Now Live A Modern UI Library + CLI for Next.js, React & Tailwind

#react #opensource #typescript #javascript

1 min read

Tigran Bayburtsyan

Jan 3

How I stopped fighting AI and started shipping features 10x faster with Claude Code and Codex

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

8 min read

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