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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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os-alt

May 10

When the OSS is alive but the license isn't: Sentry, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis (May 2026)

#opensource #selfhosted #licensing #database

5 min read

Polanger

May 10

Polanger RP: A Modern, Lightweight Alternative to TGM Plugin Activation

#wordpress #php #webdev #opensource

2 min read

os-alt

May 10

The Datadog escape hatch is real: observability is the OSS vertical that's actually winning (May 2026)

#opensource #selfhosted #devops #observability

3 min read

May 10

I Got Tired of Typing the Wrong Git Account — So I Built a Desktop App to Fix It

#opensource #git #developertools #electron

3 min read

kiwi_tech

May 10

The Local LLM Uprising: Kiwi-chan’s 47% Success Rate and the Joy of Being Offline

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

May 10

Construyendo Kernel Memory Protocol: memoria navegable para agentes de IA

#ai #llm #agents #opensource

16 min read

May 10

Don't trust the LLM with scripture: a canonical-text substitution layer for Bible quotes

#opensource #react #fastapi #supabase

6 min read

os-alt

May 10

The link-in-bio OSS market never had a Grafana — and it's quietly dying anyway (May 2026)

#showdev #opensource #selfhosted #webdev

6 min read

os-alt

May 10

We list 3 self-host PagerDuty alternatives. None of them are alive. (May 2026)

#opensource #selfhosted #devops #sre

5 min read

May 11

I built a free SaaS Admin Dashboard Template — 7 pages, dark/light mode, pure HTML/CSS/JS

#webdev #html #opensource #javascript

1 min read

@alonso_isidoro

May 10

Three Detection Paradigms. One Dataset. One Result.

#cybersecurity #machinelearning #opensource #networking

3 min read

Wu Kun

May 10

I wrote the same AI instructions 6 times. Then I built a sync engine to stop.

#ai #productivity #devtool #opensource

3 min read

Jude Hilgendorf

May 10

Auditing Windows security from a Python script, no pip install needed

#python #windows #security #opensource

3 min read

IconSearch

May 10

I built a free tool to search 11,000+ icons across Lucide, Heroicons, Tabler and more

#showdev #webdev #opensource #saas

1 min read

Raja Irfan Ahmed

May 10

I Built a GitHub Achievement Automation Toolkit (CLI + Local Dashboard)

#github #opensource #devtools #productivity

3 min read

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