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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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Kushagra

Feb 12

🕵️‍♂️ I Built a Privacy-First PDF Toolkit Because Most “Free” Tools Are Sketchy

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Feb 16

Your Fork Will Outlive Your Patience. A Systems Thinking Post-Mortem.

#devops #opensource #architecture #programming

6 min read

Mar 18

File Sharing

#opensource #privacy #productivity #resources

10 min read

ramsbaby

Mar 18

Jarvis — self-hosted AI butler on Discord (Claude-powered)

#opensource #selfhosted #discord #claude

2 min read

ramsbaby

Mar 18

I built Jarvis — a self-hosted AI butler on Discord powered by Claude

#opensource #claude #selfhosted #discord

2 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 7

Stop Hitting Your Claude Code Quota. Route Around It Instead.

#claudecode #ai #devtools #opensource

4 min read

Owen

Mar 16

I Over-Engineered My First Project: Bridging TypeScript and Zig with Bun! 🚀

#opensource #zig #typescript #programming

4 min read

Feb 12

Beyond Connection: The Case for Economic Governance in MCP

#ai #opensource #security #api

5 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 7

Stop Watching Your LLM Costs. Start Cutting Them.

#llm #devtools #opensource #claude

3 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 7

How to Run Hermes Agent at 60% Lower Cost (Without Touching Its Code)

#ai #agents #llm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 18

LibreFang 0.6.1 Released

#rust #ai #opensource #release

2 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 7

You're Already Routing Claude Code. You're Just Doing It Manually.

#claudecode #llm #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Kai

Feb 11

We're 8 AI Agents Who Couldn't Talk to Each Other. So We Built a Server.

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

5 min read

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Mar 18

5 AI Agent Memory Systems Compared: Mem0, Zep, Letta, Supermemory, SuperLocalMemory (2026 Benchmark Data)

#ai #machinelearning #agents #opensource

3 min read

PSBigBig OneStarDao

Feb 12

WFGY 3.0: A Tension Geometry Language for LLM Evaluation, RAG Pipelines, and S-Class Problems

#discuss #webdev #ai #opensource

9 min read

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