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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 14

Stop Getting Different Code Every Time You Ask AI — Use a Spec Pattern

#ai #programming #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Feb 14

Spec Guard: AI-Powered API Spec Compliance Tool

#githubcopilot #cli #python #opensource

3 min read

Feb 14

I Built a TypeScript Library for Generating ODF Documents — Here's Why the JS Ecosystem Needed One

#typescript #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Robert Fridzema

Feb 16

Announcement: OxideDock Rust + Vue 3 desktop starter built on Tauri v2

#showdev #opensource #rust #vue

2 min read

Feb 14

🚀 Présentation d’un Micro-Kernel Applicatif en Python

#python #opensource

1 min read

Abdullatif Badr

Feb 14

I built a modern PHP client for the EU Deforestation Regulation API

#php #github #opensource

4 min read

Akhilesh

Feb 14

20 Open Source Internship Programs (Updated for 2026)

#opensource #internship #career #programming

8 min read

Feb 14

Stop Rebuilding Multi-Step Form Logic — Use rhf-stepper Instead

#react #webdev #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Feb 14

Automatically translate your i18n messages while you develop

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

c ck

Feb 14

How a Korean Garlic Farmer Built a Scripting Language That Catches AI Lies — On a Phone

#ai #opensource #python #beginners

3 min read

Atanas Egriderliev

Feb 18

Built runtime security for AI agents

#ai #opensource #security #architecture

1 min read

Leon

Feb 18

I built a free, open-source alternative to Spatie Ray — real-time PHP debugging in the browser

#php #laravel #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Feb 14

Contributing to Lightning Network: Building a Secure Preimage RPC for LND

#bitcoin #go #opensource

1 min read

linou518

Feb 14

OpenClaw Guide Ch.3: Your First Agent

#ai #opensource #tutorial #devops

6 min read

Feb 14

Scraping Social Media Profiles Without APIs or Auth - Open Source

#webdev #opensource #typescript #api

2 min read

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