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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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Moo Moo

Apr 3

I Built ckpt: Automatic Checkpoints for AI Coding Sessions

#ai #opensource #productivity #git

2 min read

NEESCHAL-3

Apr 5

FaceAuth: Open Source Face Unlock for Linux

#linux #opensource #python #security

1 min read

Vasyl

May 7

Open-source licenses 101: which one to actually pick

#opensource #beginners #programming #tutorial

5 min read

Batty

Apr 4

Open Source Marketing with Zero Budget: How We Got 14 Stars in 4 Weeks

#opensource #buildinpublic #marketing #devtools

5 min read

Apr 4

Add a Beautiful Lock Screen to Any Android App in 5 Minutes (63+ Stars)

#opensource

1 min read

Dominic Robinson

May 7

Building a Production-Ready ASP.NET Core Identity System with MySQL

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #security

5 min read

Yash Kumar Saini

May 7

Dev Log #5 Building a Claude-style SRE terminal and tackling WebRTC

#python #typescript #opensource #backend

5 min read

Avinash

Apr 3

valicore: Runtime Type Validation for TypeScript (Schemas, Guards, Parsing)

#typescript #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Ida

Apr 4

5 Open-Source Polymarket GitHub Repos Developers Are Forking in 2026 (Plus the Official CLOB Clients)

#opensource #python #typescript #chainlink

2 min read

Positive Matician

Apr 3

I got tired of watching my terminal, so I built GuGa

#python #linux #android #opensource

3 min read

Bruce He

Apr 4

OpenClaw Multi-Agent Configuration: Architecture and Production Patterns

#ai #agents #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Bruce He

Apr 4

Cursor Composer 2: The Kimi K2.5 Controversy and What It Means

#cursor #ai #coding #opensource

1 min read

Igor Ganapolsky

Apr 3

I built a proentropic memory layer for AI coding agents — every mistake makes the system stronger

#ai #opensource #mcp #devtools

1 min read

Apr 4

3 Open Source Productivity Apps That Respect Your Privacy

#opensource #privacy #productivity #resources

1 min read

TimechoDB

Apr 8

Bringing Time-Series Forecasting into Apache IoTDB Database

#database #devops #opensource #performance

5 min read

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