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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 12

I Built a Blender Addon That Cleans Messy Scenes in One Click

#blender #python #opensource #3d

2 min read

Mar 12

I built a free Threat Intelligence API in Python/Flask – ML-based IP reputation scoring

#python #security #api #opensource

1 min read

Switchman

Mar 12

I got tired of AI coding agents stepping on each other, so I built Switchman

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

Kerim Yıldırım

Mar 12

I Built a Django Package to Generate llms.txt Files Automatically

#ai #django #python #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12

How I Reverse Engineered the Skool API (And Ended Up Publishing a Chrome Extension)

#webdev #ai #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

AlexTDev

Mar 16

I Built an Open-Source Mermaid Plugin for IntelliJ — Here's Why and What I Learned

#opensource #kotlin #mermaid #javascript

6 min read

Mar 12

How to Automate OpenClaw Backup and Optimization with GitHub

#devops #automation #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Derivinate

Mar 13

OpenClaw Just Became GitHub's Most-Starred Project—Here's Why

#aiagents #opensource #github #localfirst

5 min read

Hendry

Mar 12

The Info-Site: A Name for Something Small Businesses Actually Need

#webdev #selfhosted #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Max Klein

Mar 12

How spreading activation beats keyword search for LLM agents

#rust #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

Iryna

Mar 12

10 Fivetran Alternatives Worth Checking Out

#saas #data #opensource #aws

4 min read

Jamie W.

Mar 12

When Spreadsheets Stop Working: The Awkward Middle Between Sheets and ERP

#programming #productivity #opensource #devops

3 min read

Mar 12

OpenClaw Is My Right Hand. n8n Is My Hands. Here's How I Automate My Life

#ai #automation #n8n #opensource

7 min read

Mar 12

How I Manage 45 Daily Tasks with OpenClaw + NocoDB (Free vs $100+/mo)

#ai #productivity #opensource #selfhosted

6 min read

Mar 12

How I Saved $348/Year with a Self-Hosted Newsletter

#selfhosted #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

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