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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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MaxxMini

Feb 18

Why Your Budget App Fails: Plan vs Reality Tracking with DonFlow

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Vaishnav Ghenge

Feb 18

django-silky: A Modern Fork of django-silk with Dark Mode, D3 Charts, and N+1 Detection

#django #python #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Feb 18

AI Content Integrity Protocol (ACIP)

#opensource #ai #agents #security

9 min read

Feb 18

The First Operating System for AI Agents

#ai #python #opensource #agents

10 min read

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Feb 18

SuperLocalMemory v2.7: Your AI Learns You — Adaptive Learning with Local ML

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #webdev

6 min read

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Feb 18

Building a Universal Memory Layer for AI Agents: Architecture Patterns for Scalable State Management

#ai #programming #architecture #opensource

12 min read

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Feb 18

How to Give Claude Code Persistent Memory (Free, Local, 5 Minutes)

#tutorial #ai #opensource #productivity

10 min read

Setasena Randata

Feb 18

I Built a Typing Game to Help People Discover Open Source

#opensource #webdev #gamedev #javascript

2 min read

Dor Amir

Feb 18

Anthropic Just Pushed Everyone to API Billing. Here's How to Cut Your Costs.

#llm #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Kip

Feb 18

Add Identity Persistence to Your AI Agent in 10 Minutes

#ai #tutorial #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Eren DOGAN

Feb 18

Make-Your-Own-AI-Assistant

#ai #webdev #opensource #cloudflare

4 min read

Muhammad Mansoor

Feb 18

Why I Built a 100% Free PDF & Image Toolkit with Zero Tracking

#productivity #webdev #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Feb 18

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: February 11–17, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

6 min read

Techfred

Feb 18

OrcBot: Building an Autonomous AI Agent That Actually Works in Production

#ai #node #typescript #opensource

6 min read

Feb 18

A CI tool that stops AI from undoing your team's architectural decisions

#opensource #rust #react #webdev

3 min read

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