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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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Feb 11

myanon — how I anonymize 200GB of MySQL nightly for GDPR-safe dev

#mysql #opensource #database #security

1 min read

Jan 29

Mastering n8n for Robust Workflow Automation: Beyond Basic Integrations

#automation #opensource #productivity #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

桃酥

Jan 29

Showcase: Open Typeless

#showdev #opensource #claudecode #vibecoding

1 min read

Jan 27

Bumpy: zero-config monorepo releases powered by Git history

#javascript #monorepo #devops #opensource

2 min read

Feb 17

I Built a Chrome Extension That Captures YouTube Screenshots at Custom Intervals (Even 10+ Hour Videos)

#javascript #extensions #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Jan 28

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

#postgres #database #learning #opensource

3 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

Md Niaz Morshed

Jan 28

Request to Participate and Share Academic Survey on Code Review in OSS Security

#discuss #computerscience #opensource #security

1 min read

Jan 28

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

#opensource #ai #nextdns #dns

2 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

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

Vic N.

Jan 28

Flashy ⚡ - Simple path-based reverse proxy to route multiple services through one domain

#showdev #django #networking #opensource

1 min read

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