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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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May 9

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Kazuki Yonemoto

May 9

shk: A Local-First Security Guardrail CLI for AI Coding Agents

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Evgenii Engineer

May 8

What I Learned Building a Lightweight Local AI Agent

#ai #llm #opensource #go

9 min read

May 9

I built a native iOS app for Vercel Web Analytics

#showdev #analytics #ios #opensource

1 min read

WonderLab

May 9

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 60): OpenHarness - Lightweight AI Agent Infrastructure Framework

#opensource #harness #agents #llm

8 min read

Lyra

May 9

Catch Broken Debian Upgrades Before They Land: Practical `apt-listbugs`

#linux #debian #opensource #devops

6 min read

Kandasubbu raja ece pro 0112

May 9

We are Building Observal

#showdev #ai #monitoring #opensource

1 min read

May 8

The Patch-Velocity Gap: AI Discovery Is Outpacing OSS Patching

#security #ai #opensource #research

4 min read

Muhammad Bin Murtza

May 8

ClauseGuard — Technical Walkthrough

#ai #programming #python #opensource

6 min read

Marco

May 9

FreeRTOS vs Zephyr vs ThreadX: choosing the right RTOS

#architecture #iot #opensource #systemdesign

2 min read

StemSplit

May 9

The Best Resources for Audio Stem Separation in Python (2026)

#python #audio #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

May 8

See SYNAPSE Route a Three-Model Pipeline — No Connector Code Required.

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

3 min read

rainxchzed

May 9

How I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months — I started at 16

#showdev #kotlin #opensource #android

5 min read

eaymoneyawmsniper

May 8

I turned 1,460+ public APIs into a searchable JSON endpoint

#api #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Ontario

May 8

Google Sheets is your CMS - A SheetSite Dev Log

#showdev #webdev #opensource #startup

2 min read

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