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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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Mar 16

I built a PostgreSQL client in Rust because DBeaver was eating my RAM

#showdev #rust #postgres #opensource

2 min read

Feb 14

Your AI Agent Has No Audit Trail. Here Is How I Fixed That.

#ai #security #opensource #python

2 min read

musecl

Feb 14

I Built a Zero-Dependency Memory System for AI Agents in 200 Lines of Bash

#ai #agents #bash #opensource

3 min read

Mar 20

LibreFang 0.6.8 Released

#rust #ai #opensource #release

2 min read

Mar 20

14 Best Self-Hosted Claude Alternatives for AI and Coding in 2026

#ai #opensource

13 min read

Anders

Mar 9

State of AI Assets Q1 2026 — 143K agents, 17K MCP servers, all trust scored

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #agents

3 min read

nasuy

Mar 20

The most valuable AI agent skills are buried in GitHub repos

#machinelearning #ai #agents #opensource

4 min read

Michael Rewiri-Thorsen

Mar 20

The MCP Server of You: Building a Personal Knowledge Power for Kiro IDE

#ai #kiro #productivity #opensource

9 min read

chx381

Feb 14

AI Tech Trends 2026: Architectures, Efficiency, and Emerging Practices

#ai #tech #opensource

3 min read

Michael Amachree

Mar 19

DocShark: a local-first documentation MCP server for AI

#bunjs #typescript #opensource #ai

5 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 20

From autoresearch to Collective Evolution

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #evolution

7 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 20

Rotifer v0.5: Reputation, Skill Import & P2P Foundation

#ai #webassembly #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Eugene Kovshilovsky

Mar 20

128GB of RAM, Zero Internet, and a Year of Building AI Infrastructure Nobody Asked For

#ai #devops #macos #opensource

7 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 20

Rotifer v0.7: Genes Break Out of the Sandbox — Hybrid Fidelity, Dogfooding & VS Code Extension

#ai #webassembly #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Mar 20

CloudDev v0.2.0 — SNS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch Logs and more!

#go #aws #opensource #devops

1 min read

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