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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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Akanksha Trehun

May 6

Pre GSoC — Finding My Way to CircuitVerse

#programming #opensource #productivity #learning

11 min read

Apr 26

Purpose-based consent: a missing layer in the browser

#privacy #webdev #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Apr 5

What Google Lighthouse Did for Web Performance, We Need for Code Repos

#opensource #devops #webdev #ai

2 min read

Nav

Apr 2

Open-source Gmail MCP server: multi-account support, read/write (works with Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw)

#mcp #agentskills #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Max Quimby

Apr 2

Qwen 3.6-Plus: Alibaba's Agent Model Built for Real-World Tasks (Review)

#ai #agents #opensource #review

9 min read

tomer

Apr 2

I Built pytest for AI Agents — Here's What I Learned

#ai #testing #python #opensource

2 min read

Nicholas Volkhin

Apr 16

Processing Supplier and Marketplace XML Feeds in PHP

#opensource #php #xml #parsing

7 min read

dband drm

Apr 2

The Gap Between Database Version Control and Release Management

#database #devops #opensource #python

5 min read

airupt

Apr 2

How I stopped paying OpenAI to run my test suite

#ai #python #testing #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25

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

#openagent #ai #opensource #claude

2 min read

Gaurang Torvekar

Apr 2

Why I chose a CLI over MCP for my Dev Tool

#ai #cli #opensource #rag

6 min read

Siddharth Singh

Apr 2

Rootly Alternative: Open Source AI Incident Management

#ai #devops #kubernetes #opensource

6 min read

saravanan lakshmanan

Apr 2

Why Your AI Copilot Builds the Wrong Thing (And How to Fix It)

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Muhammad Zain Shabbir

Apr 2

How WebAssembly makes it possible to process PDFs entirely in your browser

#webassembly #javascript #privacy #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2

Audit System - NewStarT (Custom OWL)

#django #opensource #python #tutorial

7 min read

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