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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

I Built an Open Source PHP SDK for Mono — Here's Why It Was Worth It

#opensource #php #sdk #mono

2 min read

fromthearchitect

May 8

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Bonus: The Stack Underneath

#gnome #rust #opensource #linux

7 min read

fromthearchitect

May 8

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Part 4: Blueprint

#gnome #rust #opensource #linux

12 min read

May 8

I built a more restrained alternative to giant AI skill bundles

#opensource #ai #typescript #productivity

3 min read

Deva

May 8

Building 'Aios': A Hybrid C++/Python Engine to Run LLMs on Potato PCs 🥔🚀

#python #cpp #ai #opensource

2 min read

May 8

From Score to Workflow: Turning STEM BIO-AI Into a Local Audit System

#bioinformatics #opensource #governance #ai

14 min read

Altea Vane

May 8

MemoryGraph – Git for knowledge, built to capture research dead ends

#python #opensource #research #knowledgegraph

2 min read

May 10

How I Got Into Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 as a Tier-3 MCA Student

#opensource #career #webdev #google

12 min read

Mayank Mahadevwala

May 8

I built an open-source React data grid with zero dependencies

#react #typescript #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Jaime

May 8

Refactoring my Local AI Assistant: Moving from JSON to SQLite and Plugins (v1.2.0)

#python #opensource #refactoring #ai

2 min read

May 8

I Replaced Datadog With a 10MB Monitoring Tool (Here's What Happened)

#selfhosted #monitoring #devops #opensource

4 min read

May 8

I never expected this response ~robot-toast

#javascript #webdev #opensource #npm

2 min read

Jayprakash

May 8

Why 80% of Kafka Clusters Would Fail a SOC 2 Audit Tomorrow

#kafka #devops #security #opensource

4 min read

Arturo

May 8

BowerBot: Building an LLM Agent for OpenUSD

#ai #opensource #agents #python

4 min read

yuqiang

May 8

Building an Agentic Firewall for Multi-Agent AI Systems

#ai #opensource #python #agents

6 min read

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