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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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Vilius

Jul 9

Every Repo Is a World Model

#ai #opensource #devtools #git

4 min read

Jul 9

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 1 to July 8, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

24 min read

Jul 10

AMD Had Zero Agent Skills. I Built the First 10.

#rocm #ai #opensource #agents

7 min read

Jul 10

I Open-Sourced Claude Basecamp — Come Help Me Build a Reconciliation Loop for Claude Code

#opensource #ai #node #opensourcecontrib

3 min read

Jul 9

AI Agents Cheat on Pull Requests. I Mined 327 of Them to Prove It.

#ai #agents #security #opensource

5 min read

Jul 10

I tracked every trending AI repo's stars daily for 3 weeks. The growth is not where I expected

#ai #github #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Jul 9

Anthropic reset everyone's Claude limits. I found out 5 hours late

#showdev #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Stefan Zipproth

Jul 9

My reasoning engine proved that 114 is prime — a debugging story about negation

#cpp #opensource #prolog #zelph

4 min read

Jul 9

Our Journey to GSSoC 2026: Omnikon's Repository Has Been Selected! 🎉

#opensource #github #javascript #react

2 min read

Nathan Polarski

Jul 10

Pure ReAct is expensive and fragile. Sparsi lowers costs and increases reliability.

#ai #architecture #opensource #python

5 min read

Jul 10

I'm Building Claude Basecamp — an Open-Source OS for Everything Claude Code (and I Need Help)

#opensource #ai #node #opensourcecontrib

3 min read

Tahira Muhammad

Jul 10

I got tired of breaking downstream code, so I built an AI CLI that fixes it for me.

#opensource #python #github #programming

2 min read

Jul 9

Forget the $5,000 Bootcamp: The Definitive, Open-Source AI & Data Engineering Syllabus for 2026

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Prem kumar Akula

Jul 10

The docker-compose port binding that Trivy, Checkov, and Semgrep all miss

#security #docker #devops #opensource

1 min read

Jul 9

Built a proxy, so my AI coding sessions stop forgetting everything after 20 turns

#ai #llm #python #opensource

2 min read

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