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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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Avi Fenesh

Feb 12

Your AI Agent Configs Are Probably Broken (and You Don't Know It)

#ai #tooling #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Jan 29

I built a free, privacy-focused alternative to TinyWow with 60+ tools 🛠️

#showdev #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Feb 2

🧠✨ Extending OpenSearch Dashboards: A Complete Plugin Guide

#tutorial #opensource #opensearch #javascript

13 min read

Rwan

Jan 29

I Built a Minecraft-Inspired Dashboard for AI Agents — Zero Dependencies, Pure Vanilla JS

#opensource #javascript #ai #webdev

4 min read

abdelrahman seada

Jan 29

Scripts Runner: Manage Your npm Scripts with Style 🚀

#vscode #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Uwe c

Feb 2

How I cut AI context usage by 50x with a Tree-sitter code index

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

chrismo

Jan 29

Jazz spinnerVerbs for Claude

#ai #productivity #programming #opensource

1 min read

Feb 2

My FOSDEM 2026 watchlist

#fosdem #opensource #postgres #community

4 min read

Jan 29

Beyond n8n: A Developer's Guide to Selecting Robust Open-Source Workflow Automation Engines

#automation #opensource #workflow #devops

6 min read

Feb 8

Localising your React app the "Tailwind" way: no keys & no JSON, just code

#react #typescript #opensource #localisation

4 min read

Jan 29

Bringing the Linux "touch" Command to Windows with a PowerShell Module

#opensource #productivity #shell

2 min read

Shin

Jan 29

Convenience is eating security: why “one-click agents” need a stop button

#ai #python #security #opensource

2 min read

Feb 11

myanon — how I anonymize 200GB of MySQL nightly for GDPR-safe dev

#mysql #opensource #database #security

1 min read

Jan 29

Mastering n8n for Robust Workflow Automation: Beyond Basic Integrations

#automation #opensource #productivity #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

桃酥

Jan 29

Showcase: Open Typeless

#showdev #opensource #claudecode #vibecoding

1 min read

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