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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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Apr 25

Tian AI Self-Evolution: Code Modification Engine

#ai #python #opensource

2 min read

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

Nilam Bora

Apr 24

OpenClaw Isn't a Chatbot — It's the Unix of Personal AI

#devchallenge #openclawchallenge #ai #opensource

8 min read

Apr 25

Building Production Flutter Plugins: A 156-Likes pub.dev Case Study

#flutter #dart #opensource #plugin

3 min read

Apr 25

Haul :) a tiny file organizer daemon for Linux

#linux #bash #opensource #devtools

2 min read

mitsuru

Apr 25

Introducing fulgur: a blazing fast HTML-to-PDF engine in Rust — no browser required

#rust #pdf #opensource #ai

8 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 25

9 Tools Big Tech Uses Internally (Now Open Source)

#devops #opensource #webdev #tooling

8 min read

Apr 25

Cutting my AI spend to zero with an open-source Claude Code alternative

#openagent #ai #opensource #claude

2 min read

1436941541

Apr 25

I built a privacy-first PDF dark mode converter that runs entirely in your browser

#showdev #javascript #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Priyank Malviya

Apr 25

AI Agents for Database Management: Complete Guide 2025

#ai #dataengineerin #multiplatform #opensource

5 min read

Nitish

Apr 25

PasteShield - an Extension that can save you from deploying the secrets

#vscode #security #devtools #opensource

3 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 25

7 Open-Source Security Tools Every Developer Ignores (But Shouldn't)

#security #opensource #webdev #devops

6 min read

Jan Küster 🔥

Apr 25

Join me in building a community-maintained fork of the Quill Editor 🙌

#community #opensource #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Apr 25

The Dependency Avalanche: 644 Strangers in Your package.json

#supplychain #opensource #freebsd #security

6 min read

I'm Phuc

Apr 25

How to Use Viconic Icons in React and HTML

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Apr 25

From Diff to Proof: Teaching Dennis to Verify Transformations

#software #opensource #refactorit #backend

2 min read

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