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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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wontopos

Mar 23

WMB-100K: We built the first 100,000-turn benchmark for AI memory systems

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #python

2 min read

Aditya Kumar Pandey

Mar 23

Benchmarking Polars, DuckDB & Dask for RADIS: My GSoC 2026 Proposal Deep Dive

#gsoc #python #opensource #radis

6 min read

guanjiawei

Mar 23

The Open Source Community Is Undergoing a 'Short-Video' Explosion

#ai #opensource #thoughts

4 min read

Mar 22

zodiac-skills: I Gave Claude 12 Personality Disorders, and It Started Finding Real Bugs

#ai #claudecode #opensource #promptengineering

8 min read

Mar 23

I Built a Diagnostic CLI for Claude Code Skills — Here's What 8 Rules Caught That I Missed

#ai #claude #cli #opensource

9 min read

Furkan Köykıran

Mar 22

CLI-Anything'e Tarayıcı Otomasyon Desteği: MCP Backend Pattern İlk Uygulama

#opensource #python #mcp #browserautomation

4 min read

Furkan Köykıran

Mar 22

Adding Browser Automation to CLI-Anything: First MCP Backend Pattern

#opensource #python #mcp #browserautomation

4 min read

Mar 23

The Multi-Agent Framework Wars: What Actually Works in Production (March 2026)

#ai #agents #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Oarcom

Mar 22

I Found Corporate Networks Hidden Behind Porn Sites — Same Tracker Fingerprints, Different Brands

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Hcan

Mar 23

I Built an App to Track all. Games, Movies, and Anime in One Place

#showdev #opensource #flutter #productivity

5 min read

Mar 27

[Qwen Meetup] Function Calling Harness: From 6.75% to 100%

#ai #programming #opensource #typescript

19 min read

Bristie

Mar 23

WaspSting - Penetration Testing & Bug Bounty Tool

#bugbounty #security #python #opensource

9 min read

Rajmohan Arabhavi

Mar 23

Why I Stopped Using Session State and Used Hindsight Instead

#webdev #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Mar 23

I built a terminal-style ASCII GitHub stats generator

#showdev #github #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Gus

Mar 22

Aegis — I built an open-source secrets broker because CyberArk costs more than my salary

#security #opensource #devops #selfhosted

5 min read

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