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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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Kern CMS

Apr 24

kerncms: Open-source Self-Hosted Headless CMS with AI Schema Generation

#webdev #opensource #selfhosted #javascript

2 min read

Thanniru Sai Teja

Apr 24

I built a GUI to manage Python virtual environments and pip packages (Tkinter)

#python #tkinter #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Apr 24

Run Claude Code in Any Sandbox with One API: AgentBox SDK

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

3 min read

Apr 24

Activepieces and MCP: What We Learned Building AI Workflows

#activepieces #mcp #opensource #workflowautomation

6 min read

Apr 23

The Skill Ecosystem Has a Locked Door Problem — So I'm Building the Lock

#ai #agents #opensource #claude

4 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 24

AI Got Hands: Breaking the Human Bottleneck in Agent Workflows

#ai #opensource #automation #machinelearning

9 min read

GroverTek

Apr 23

Stop Configuring the Same LLMs Over and Over: Introducing LLMC

#machine #llm #productivity #opensource

3 min read

kyriewen

May 7

I built a Chrome extension that downloads every image on a page — here's what I learned about Shadow DOM, CSS backgrounds, and Manifest V3

#javascript #webdev #productivity #opensource

5 min read

May 7

🚀 Building OSSI — An AI-Powered Open Source Intelligence System with Kestra

#kestra #wemakedevs #workflowautomation #opensource

6 min read

jidonglab

Apr 24

OpenCode Hit 140K Stars. Why Terminal Agents Won 2026.

#ai #opensource #agents #webdev

7 min read

FC Quiles

Apr 24

We rebuilt the same Django AI backend 12 times. So we open-sourced it.

#django #python #opensource #ai

3 min read

Apr 24

I Built an AI Customer Service Platform You Can Deploy in One Click

#ai #opensource #customerservice #claude

3 min read

KevinTen

Apr 24

The 60th Attempt: When Your "Knowledge Management" System Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Mediocrity

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

5 min read

doltter

Apr 23

I Replaced $800/mo in API Costs with a Local Llama 4 Setup for E-Commerce

#ai #ecommerce #llm #opensource

4 min read

Sylwia Sečkár

May 8

Title: Stop Over-Engineering Your CSS: Meet Traceless-Style, the High-Performance Design System for 2026

#webdev #tailwindcss #opensource #performance

2 min read

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