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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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Dec 3 '22

Super Useful CSS Resources 🌈

#css #webdev #opensource #codenewbie

8 min read

Nov 20 '23

50 ways to bring in extra cash as a developer 💰

#opensource #motivation #automation #beginners

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Anmol Baranwal for Opire

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11 Practical Ways to Bring Side Income as a Developer 💰

#programming #beginners #opensource #productivity

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Apr 17 '24

30+ app ideas with complete source code

#opensource #javascript #webdev #react

25 min read

Oct 13 '23

⚡⚡ 7 Open Source Repositories That Will Make You 90% Smarter 😎

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Supritha

Jun 8 '21

How to have an awesome GitHub profile ?

#github #markdown #opensource #git

5 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Feb 28 '24

I'm Building a Full-Stack App: Here Are the Libraries I'm Going to Use...

#opensource #programming #beginners #javascript

17 min read

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24 Best Resources 🎨 For Web Developers 💻 [HTML + CSS + JavaScript] 😱

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Arindam Majumder

Nov 14 '24

9 Open Source Libraries to Supercharge Your Next Project 🔋⚡️

#opensource #webdev #javascript #beginners

11 min read

Oct 26 '23

🔥 9 Open-Source Repos That Will Make Your SaaS Gold 🤔

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Nov 8 '21

Join Us for the 2021 GitHub Actions Hackathon on DEV!

#actionshackathon21 #actions #opensource #github

3 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Mar 20 '24

17 Libraries You Should Know if You Build with React

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

23 min read

Jan 19 '24

GitHub Readme: Responsive? 🤔 Animated? 🤯 Light and dark modes? 😱 You bet! 💪🏼

#github #opensource #webdev #css

6 min read

Arindam Majumder

Oct 22 '24

8 Tools You Need to Build Your First SaaS 🧙‍♂️ 🪄

#webdev #beginners #opensource #javascript

8 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Taipy

Apr 23 '24

🚀 21 Tools to take your dev skills to the moon 🌝

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

29 min read

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