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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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Akinshola Samuel AKINDE

Mar 25

Bridging Fintech and Agentic AI: Building a Paystack MCP Server in Python

#python #ai #api #opensource

4 min read

Mar 24

Free LocalStack Alternative — 20 AWS Services and counting

#aws #docker #python #opensource

2 min read

Glen Yu for Google Developer Experts

Mar 24

Implementing a RAG system: Crawl

#rag #genai #opensource #adk

5 min read

freerave

Mar 25

I Built a Clipboard Manager for Kali Linux — And Learned Way More Than Expected

#python #linux #opensource #productivity

7 min read

Mar 24

I built a terminal-native Little Snitch alternative for macOS

#go #macos #security #opensource

4 min read

Mar 25

Linux still doesn’t understand developers. So I built a GNOME extension that does.

#showdev #linux #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Henrique Sasaki Yuya

Mar 24

I Built a Type-Safe SI Unit Library in Swift — And the Compiler Catches Your Physics Mistakes

#swift #programming #opensource #types

5 min read

Hanzi Li

Mar 25

Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs

#mcp #ai #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Prasanna Vaidya

Mar 25

auto-webmcp v0.3.0: React support, richer schemas, and WebMCP spec compliance

#webmcp #javascript #ai #opensource

5 min read

Ethan

Mar 25

Why Your AI's Memory Shouldn't Live on Someone Else's Server

#ai #privacy #opensource #rust

4 min read

vCluster

Mar 25

Day 2: Getting Started with vind: Your First Deployment with LoadBalancer

#vind #opensource #docker #vcluster

6 min read

Emanuele

Mar 25

How I replaced paid hosting with a €100 home server (and saved hundreds)

#docker #devops #opensource #cloud

6 min read

Mar 25

What Happens When Your AI Agent Makes an HTTP Request

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Medea

Mar 25

Would you use a coding challenge where you fix bugs in a real codebase instead of solving LeetCode-style problems

#cli #programming #opensource #startup

1 min read

Wallet Guy

Mar 25

Teaching AI Agents to Handle NFTs: ERC-721, ERC-1155, and Metaplex

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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