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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 23

Claude Code UI to track your sessions.

#opensource #anthropic #ai #ui

2 min read

Jan 24

I Built an AI-Powered Quant Trading Platform That Runs 100% Locally – Introducing QuantDinger

#opensource #ai #github #webdev

3 min read

Jan 27

PowerSNMPv3: A New Pure Go SNMP Library with Better Error Handling

#programming #opensource #go #networking

3 min read

Boniface Alexander

Jan 23

Why AI Agents Fail in Production Without an Execution Runtime

#ai #llm #opensource #gemini

3 min read

Jan 23

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: January 15–22, 2026

#news #architecture #dataengineering #opensource

5 min read

Madhavi Losetty

Jan 27

Open Source - Seeking Expert Feedback on React Component Library Updates

#codequality #javascript #opensource #react

1 min read

Yunus Emre for Proje Defteri

Jan 27

Revolution in Voice AI: Natural Conversations with NVIDIA PersonaPlex! - Proje Defteri

#nvidia #gpu #whisper #opensource

4 min read

freerave

Feb 15

I Rewrote My VS Code Extension's Core Engine: Meet DotFetch v1.1

#vscode #opensource #productivity #javascript

1 min read

Tongyi Lab

Jan 23

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#ai #aigc #opensource #qwen

3 min read

Jan 23

Best Practices for Creating a Consistent UX in Asterisk-Based Systems (Without Heavy Customization)

#ux #uxdesign #asterisk #opensource

2 min read

Felicia Grace for BytesRack

Jan 23

Docmost vs. Notion: How to Cut SaaS Costs by 90% (Self-Hosted Guide)

#selfhosted #opensource #productivity #devops

3 min read

Jan 23

5 Ways to Find High-Impact Ruby and Rails Projects to Contribute to Today

#ruby #rails #opensource #github

3 min read

Jan 23

Nexus Observatory: Visualizing Global Open-Source Contributions in Real-Time with GitHub Copilot CLI

#cli #githubcopilot #datascience #opensource

2 min read

Julian Li

Jan 23

New on Trendshift: Stats Page for Open-Source Language Trends

#programming #webdev #opensource #repositories

1 min read

Inioluwa Eunice Atanda

Jan 22

Automating Security Updates for Prometheus LTS: My First CNCF Contribution

#devops #cloudnative #opensource #prometheus

3 min read

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