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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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May 21

The Bank That Blocked Me Twice in One Week

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

4 min read

May 26

We're Hiring: VP of Engineering — Foundation for Agentic Networks (Project NANDA)

#hiring #agents #opensource #career

2 min read

tage cc

May 21

I open sourced memduck, a self-hosted AI memory workspace

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

May 20

Life after the merge: why publishing an Obsidian plugin is just the beginning

#opensource #webdev #obsidian #productivity

8 min read

Bu Feng

May 21

Coding Agents Are Becoming Remote Workers. Enterprises Need an Agent Harness.

#ai #harness #selfhosted #opensource

8 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

Mukunda Rao Katta

May 21

Wrapping Hermes Agent with agent-stack: six tiny libs for the boring parts

#devchallenge #hermesagentchallenge #opensource #typescript

5 min read

Kai K

May 21

Token Watcher

#opensource #ai #agents #promptengineering

1 min read

Bojan Josifoski

May 25

The Three-Body Problem: AI Code, Supply Chain Attacks, and the Talent Exodus

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Ram Chandra Samal

May 25

Multi-Repo Microservice Changes Are a Coordination Problem. I Solved It With AI Agent Teams.

#ai #claude #microservices #opensource

6 min read

May 20

Why hypergraphz beats every other Python hypergraph library

#python #zig #opensource #datascience

10 min read

Niveditha Sathish Nair

May 21

I built PromptLens — a free, local-first LLM prompt evaluation tool (open source, looking for contributors)

#opensource #contributorswanted #llm #machinelearning

1 min read

MORINAGA

May 20

Static site search for Astro in 2026: why I picked Pagefind over Algolia and Lunr

#astro #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

tage cc

May 21

I open sourced memduck, a self-hosted AI memory workspace

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

May 21

Building a Multi-Provider AI Agent in TypeScript — No SDKs, Just Fetch

#typescript #ai #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

May 21

I Built a 'Production-Ready' AI Agent Framework. It Was a Lie. So I Fixed It.

#opensource #ai #typescript #webdev

3 min read

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