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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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Shimo

Mar 3

I Found the Shortest Route to Ship My Claude Code Skills to 57,000 Developers

#ai #opensource #skill #agentskills

5 min read

Jan 28

I Built a Free PostgreSQL Internals Course — Here's What I Learned

#postgres #database #learning #opensource

3 min read

Filip Dorian Pindej

Mar 3

I built the .NET SaaS starter I wish existed - and just shipped v1.0.0, sort of...

#dotnet #svelte #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Feb 20

Como contornei o limite de 10 anos da API do Banco Central com Python (async)

#python #opensource #tutorial #api

5 min read

Jan 28

Why I Spent 4 Months Building a "Map" for the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

#mcp #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jan 28

pam - a minimal SQL client for the CLI (dbeaver terminalized!)

#opensource #cli #programming #database

1 min read

Yunus Emre for Proje Defteri

Jan 28

What is Molt Bot (ClawdBot)? Meet Your Personal AI Assistant – Proje Defteri

#ai #opensource #local

6 min read

Mar 3

Running a Free Domain Infrastructure Serving 400,000 Users

#dns #opensource #devops #infrastructure

2 min read

Mar 3

Most "Multi-Agent" Frameworks Are Just Multiple Prompts Wearing a Trenchcoat

#ai #typescript #opensource #programming

7 min read

Jan 28

🚀 Boosting AI Agents with NextDNS Skills: An Open-Source Toolkit

#opensource #ai #nextdns #dns

2 min read

Auden

Mar 3

How to Install OpenClaw: A Guide to Your Open-Source AI Assistant

#ai #tutorial #opensource #openclaw

4 min read

Jan 28

The Dynamic Service Slug Problem: Why Your Hardcoded Local Service Pages are Killing Your Scalability

#programming #webdev #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Mar 4

How a $150,000 Mistake Changed the Way I Handle Production Data

#startup #opensource #devops #datasecurity

3 min read

Feb 10

How We Replaced Goroutines With a Database Queue for Video Transcription

#go #postgres #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Siddharth Saxena

Jan 28

I Got Quoted $497/mo for Translation Management So I Built My Own

#showdev #i18n #localization #opensource

4 min read

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