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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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Sulthon Zainul Habib

Jun 11

I Built an AI Code Reviewer That Runs on 240 Repos — And a Cron System That Keeps It Alive

#ai #github #automation #opensource

6 min read

Jun 11

Road To KiwiEngine #15: Why I Care More About Systems Than Features

#webdev #architecture #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Arthur

Jun 11

The Person, Not the Cards

#opensource #governance #llm #zig

7 min read

Jun 11

Ktav: I got fed up with every config format, so I built one with no quotes, no commas, no indentation hell

#rust #opensource #configuration #programming

8 min read

Martin Palopoli

Jun 11

Del repo a producción con un solo comando: cómo Fitz hace del deployment una feature del lenguaje

#webdev #devops #opensource #observability

10 min read

Martin Palopoli

Jun 11

From repo to production in one command: how Fitz makes deployment a language feature

#webdev #devops #opensource #observability

9 min read

Kunal

Jun 11

Rogue AI Agent Wrecked Fedora's Installer: 3 Lessons Every Open Source Maintainer Needs Now [2026]

#aiagents #opensource #aisafety #fedora

7 min read

Jun 11

Building a Sovereign Home Server: Lessons Learned Running Nextcloud, Euro-Office, and Frigate on a Raspberry Pi 5

#iot #linux #opensource #performance

4 min read

chowyu

Jun 11

AIClaw's Generated File Attachments Keep Tool Output In The Chat Loop

#ai #opensource #agents #webdev

4 min read

Truffle

Jun 11

What the ninth tool inherits.

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Oluwajuwon Omotayo

Jun 11

I Built an Open Source Go SDK for Squad by GTCO. Here Is What I Learned About Payment API Design.

#go #opensource #nigeria #squadco

6 min read

Jun 11

Document Action Effects Report: How NGB Models Business Flows

#dotnet #postgres #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Jason St-Cyr for puppet

Jun 11

What You Need to Know About the New puppetlabs-stdlib 10 in June 2026

#puppet #opensource #devops

5 min read

Jun 11

Building a SaaS engine in public: an affiliate program that isn't one hardcoded scheme

#laravel #php #saas #opensource

7 min read

danio

Jun 11

A free model that runs 4x faster on your own GPU — and two more shifts for builders

#news #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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