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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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Repo Dump CLI tool

#opensource #llm #cli #typescript

1 min read

Havilah Academy

PlotSenseAI Hackathon 2025 begins today 🚀🚀

#ai #machinelearning #hackathon #opensource

1 min read

My experience with CLI tool

#llm #typescript #opensource #cli

2 min read

Bat-KV: Lightweight Key-Value Store for Windows Batch

#database #programming #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Introducing: Clips Open-Source AI Clipping Tool for Every Creator

#showdev #tooling #ai #opensource

3 min read

Show Your Work: devbox CLI

#opensource #productivity #containers #devops

1 min read

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

Wörtilizer

#react #nextjs #tailwindcss #opensource

1 min read

Sliding Window Visualization using “KitikiPlot”, a novel Python Library

#datascience #tooling #python #opensource

1 min read

Let’s Build the Open-Source Digital Infrastructure for Clean Energy

#opensource #cleanenergy

1 min read

Aleksei Aleinikov

🌍 Sidebar menu: Open Source in 2025

#opensource #career #linux #google

1 min read

PostHog configuration in Codebuff codebase.

#posthog #opensource #codebuff #analytics

3 min read

How I Transformed My Old Gaming PC into a Powerful Home Server

#webdev #homelab #opensource #selfhosted

3 min read

The Hacker’s Playbook vs. SafeLine WAF: Who Wins?

#safeline #cybersecurity #opensource #waf

2 min read

My experience in building the CLI tool

#opensource #githubprojects #llm

2 min read

Valery Zinchenko

We're Joining Hacktoberfest 2025 🎉

#news #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Day 11 of #90DaysOfCode – Python Name Generator 🎉

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

🚀 Join Hacktoberfest 2025: Contribute to Our DSA Code Repository!

#hacktoberfest2025 #opensource #dsa #programming

3 min read

The Offset Reset Dilemma: Avoiding Surprise Replays in Kafka

#kafka #opensource #programming #eventdriven

1 min read

Use PVS-Studio to analyze open-source projects

#opensource #cicd #yaml #programming

5 min read

MuseBot: Multi-Platform Chatbot with Multi-LLMs Support

#opensource #ai #go #javascript

1 min read

Building SW: Lessons from the Backend

#go #opensource #webdev #sql

8 min read

My Experience Publishing to the Official MCP Registry - Is It Worth It Right Now?

#mcp #ai #developer #opensource

1 min read

Codebuff, an open-source AI coding assistant.

#codebuff #agent #cli #opensource

2 min read

n8n Self-Hosted vs n8n Cloud: Which Should You Choose?

#n8n #cloud #n8nautomation #opensource

2 min read

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