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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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Joe Davies

Apr 16

Built a CLI that tells me what I'm spending on AI APIs before the invoice does

#showdev #opensource #ai #cli

1 min read

k38f

Apr 16

How I built a progress bar library in 300 lines of Python

#python #tutorial #cli #opensource

6 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 17

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Jean-David Bonicel

Apr 17

I built a CLI that scaffolds complete multi-tenant SaaS apps

#opensource #react #java #webdev

3 min read

Apr 16

Stop Rebuilding Your Claude Code Setup - Scaffold It Once with Worclaude

#claudecode #claude #ai #opensource

2 min read

Ch. Abdul Wahab

Apr 17

Maybe this is how Open-Source apps are born... 🚀

#opensource #python #javascript #testing

3 min read

Yevhenii

Apr 16

I built a local memory layer for LLM agents – here's why and how

#ai #llm #opensource #mnemostroma

2 min read

Apr 17

clerk: Auto-Summarize Your Claude Code Sessions

#cli #opensource #ai #productivity

3 min read

Sakti Chourasia

Apr 17

I got tired of every "draggable" library being 30KB and opinionated about my CSS - so I built react-driftkit

#opensource #typescript #react #javascript

5 min read

Apr 17

Why Every AI Image Generator Fails at Text (And One That Finally Doesn't)

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Jedsadakorn Suma

Apr 17

I built a runbook generator with FastAPI and Groq — here's how it works

#devops #python #fastapi #opensource

2 min read

Apr 17

How I Built an AI-Powered Job Search Pipeline That Tailors My Resume for Every Application

#python #opensource #ai #career

3 min read

Dmitry Prudnikov

Apr 17

GraphRAG: Introducing CoordiNode (Alpha)

#rust #database #ai #opensource

2 min read

Apr 17

Axios CVE-2025–62718: The Silent SSRF Bug That Could Be Hiding in Your Node.js App Right Now

#webdev #axios #opensource #programming

4 min read

Atlas

Apr 17

The Agent Economy Has a $0 Problem

#ai #agents #opensource #web3

4 min read

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