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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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Kai

Mar 2

How We Coordinate 9 AI Agents Without Losing Our Minds (or Theirs)

#ai #agents #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Mar 2

I Built 13 Free Developer Tools With Zero Dependencies

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 2

Atlas Paywalled Their Migration Linter — Here Are Your Free Alternatives

#postgres #database #opensource #devops

7 min read

Wes

Mar 2

This CLI Launches Parallel AI Agents. It Didn't Launch on Linux.

#opensource #typescript #ai #tooling

6 min read

charm1987

Mar 2

I Built a Memory System for My AI — Here's What I Learned

#ai #memory #agents #opensource

4 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Mar 2

I let my AI agent deploy a Next.js app and it actually worked

#ai #mcp #devops #opensource

3 min read

Mar 2

Minimal production-ready template for a Next.js app

#nextjs #buildinpublic #opensource

7 min read

TI for Kreuzberg

Mar 2

Kreuzberg vs. Unstructured.io: Benchmarks and Architecture Comparison (March 2026)

#ai #machinelearning #document #opensource

6 min read

xujfcn

Mar 2

Why Your AI Agent Keeps Losing Its Memory (And How We Fixed It)

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

9 min read

Mar 2

goffi: Zero-CGO Foreign Function Interface for Go — How We Call C Libraries Without a C Compiler

#go #opensource #programming #performance

12 min read

권용범

Mar 2

I built a one-click installer for OpenClaw AI agent

#opensource #electron #react #ai

2 min read

Mar 2

Copilot CLI Weekly: General Availability Has Landed

#github #devex #ai #opensource

7 min read

Bishnu Prasad Sahu

Mar 2

Building an Indian Privacy-First Autonomous AI CLI Agent with Background Automation (SamarthyaBot)

#ai #opensource #openclaw #openai

2 min read

DEV Weekend Challenge: Community

Mar 1

RepoReady — Instant AI-powered onboarding for any GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repo

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #opensource

4 min read

Mar 2

On-Premise AI Architecture: Complete Enterprise Deployment Guide for 2026

#ai #opensource #cloud #tutorial

11 min read

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