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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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Altea Vane

May 8

MemoryGraph – Git for knowledge, built to capture research dead ends

#python #opensource #research #knowledgegraph

2 min read

May 10

How I Got Into Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 as a Tier-3 MCA Student

#opensource #career #webdev #google

12 min read

Mayank Mahadevwala

May 8

I built an open-source React data grid with zero dependencies

#react #typescript #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Jaime

May 8

Refactoring my Local AI Assistant: Moving from JSON to SQLite and Plugins (v1.2.0)

#python #opensource #refactoring #ai

2 min read

May 8

I Replaced Datadog With a 10MB Monitoring Tool (Here's What Happened)

#selfhosted #monitoring #devops #opensource

4 min read

May 8

I never expected this response ~robot-toast

#javascript #webdev #opensource #npm

2 min read

Jayprakash

May 8

Why 80% of Kafka Clusters Would Fail a SOC 2 Audit Tomorrow

#kafka #devops #security #opensource

4 min read

Arturo

May 8

BowerBot: Building an LLM Agent for OpenUSD

#ai #opensource #agents #python

4 min read

yuqiang

May 8

Building an Agentic Firewall for Multi-Agent AI Systems

#ai #opensource #python #agents

6 min read

DASWU

May 8

Quota Design in Distributed Architectures: Implementation and Use Cases in JuiceFS

#opensource

11 min read

May 8

From -9.15pp to +0.61pp: An engineering journey through four DPO iteration failures

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #python

11 min read

May 8

I Built an Open-Source AI Firewall Because Every LLM App Leaks Data

#ai #security #opensource #python

4 min read

May 8

Webhook vs Egress: Two Architectures for AI Agent Security

#security #ai #devops #opensource

7 min read

Alex Kamnier Crypto Arbitrage & AI Developer

May 8

Solving Liquidity Fragmentation: Building a Cross-Chain Monitoring Engine in Python 2026

#python #web3 #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

ardev

May 8

HMAC-attested receipts for AI agent tool calls — verify-action-mcp

#ai #mcp #python #opensource

4 min read

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