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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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Alexander Schneider

Feb 9

We Built Free Embeddable Stock Sentiment Widgets — Here's How to Use Them

#webcomponents #javascript #fintech #opensource

3 min read

Feb 9

Building a Pure Go PostgreSQL SQL Parser (No CGO, No Server, No Runtime Dependencies)

#postgres #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Simskii

Feb 9

Introducing ArcticKey - Redis Hosting That Never Leaves Europe

#redis #cloud #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mitul Shah

Feb 9

From “It Just Works” to Building a Reverse Tunnel

#rust #devtool #infrastructure #opensource

11 min read

RapidKit

Feb 10

The RapidKit Ecosystem: Three Tools, One Vision

#rapidkit #opensource #api #devtools

6 min read

Feb 9

Sofia Core - Open Source AI Infrastructure with DNA Computing

#showdev #python #opensource #ai

2 min read

Feb 9

This AI Agent Just Upgraded Itself to Claude Opus 4.6 — Here's What Happened

#ai #claude #opensource

3 min read

Feb 9

Type-Safe Route Paths in Next.js with next-typed-paths

#typescript #nextjs #opensource #npm

3 min read

Lyra

Feb 9

Local Reasoning: Deploying DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama-8B with Ollama & Open WebUI 🌙

#linux #opensource #ai #selfhosted

2 min read

Feb 9

Tanstack Router in LikeC4 codebase.

#opensource #tanstack #architecture #reactrouter

3 min read

Feb 8

pdftk is GOAT

#pdf #opensource

1 min read

Robin Haze

Feb 10

How do robots dream?

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Mahendra Gurjar

Feb 10

Why Your AI Agent Keeps Forgetting Things

#ai #python #opensource #llm

4 min read

Feb 9

InALign: Tamper-Proof Audit Trails for AI Agents

#ai #security #opensource #devtools

3 min read

Lordkro

Feb 9

I built a privacy-first image toolkit — all processing happens in your browser, zero server uploads

#webdev #programming #react #opensource

1 min read

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