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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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Overcoming environment setup for a first PR

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Apr 13

The Open Sourcerer of Forem: Beyond the UI

#discuss #community #forem #opensource

4 min read

Julien Vallini for Alpic

Apr 15

Designing a CLI for Both Humans and Agents

#cli #ai #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Thomas Marcelis

Apr 15

Building a Replay-Tested Interactive Brokers Client in Go

#go #testing #ibkr #opensource

6 min read

Apr 15

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: April 9–15, 2026

#news #database #dataengineering #opensource

7 min read

Serhii

Apr 15

Building multilingual runtime collections in a Filament plugin

#laravel #filament #opensource #buildinpublic

4 min read

Pawan Singh Kapkoti

Apr 15

OpsMind: On-Prem AI for Manufacturing — No Cloud, No API Keys, No Budget

#python #ai #opensource #manufacuring

3 min read

Soumyadeep Mahapatra

Apr 15

Architectural drift with Agentic coding. Here's what I built to fix it.

#claude #opensource #architecture #devtools

4 min read

southy404

Apr 15

OpenBlob is evolving: better architecture, modern UI, and real-time transcripts

#opensource #ai #agents #github

3 min read

Apr 15

Four Security Bugs That Shipped in AI-Generated Code (and How They Got Caught)

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

Apr 15

How to Set Up a Free Coding Agent on Your Machine in 10 Minutes

#ai #opencode #ollama #opensource

5 min read

Halfblood Prince

Apr 15

I Almost Installed a Malicious Python Package: So, I Built trustcheck

#python #security #opensource #devtool

3 min read

Buffer Overflow

Apr 15

I Built a Compression Algorithm That Beats Gzip in 2 Weeks. I Have an A+ Cert.

#rust #compression #algorithms #opensource

7 min read

David Van Assche (S.L)

Apr 15

Running AI Coding Agents for Free: The Open Source & Local Setup Guide (2026)

#ai #tutorial #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Apr 15

I Ate My Own Dog Food: How I Benchmarked AI Skills and Proved Eval-Driven Development Works

#ai #qa #opensource #openclaw

3 min read

WebhookLab

Apr 15

I built an open-source webhook debugger, shipped it 55 days ago, and here's what happened

#webdev #go #opensource #devtools

4 min read

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