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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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Jun 13 '23

7 Strategies for Better Debugging

#programming #beginners #opensource #testing

2 min read

Jun 9 '23

[Nestia] I made backend simulator for frontend developers (similar with MSW, but fully automated)

#opensource #typescript #nestjs #programming

12 min read

Ohav Almog for Jit - Minimum Viable Security for Developers

Jun 12 '23

Playing Around with AWS-Vault for Fun & Profit

#aws #opensource #security #cloud

7 min read

Dmitriy A. for Globalping

Jun 12 '23

Become Part of the Globalping Community: How to Run a Virtual Probe

#opensource #network #networking #devops

5 min read

Idan Elhalwani for krud.dev

Jun 12 '23

Ostara Version 0.10.0 Has Been Released

#discuss #java #opensource #devops

4 min read

mv-turtle

Jun 10 '23

Top open source security devtools you need to know about

#programming #opensource #security #learning

3 min read

Christopher Cavalea

May 22 '23

Aimless.js - The Missing JS Randomness Library

#javascript #opensource #github #frontend

1 min read

Suresh Hariharan

Jun 11 '23

Schema based form validation in React JS using React Hook Form and Zod library

#typescript #react #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Jun 11 '23

I built 3 Apps using Spotify API and Python

#python #opensource #programming

1 min read

May 21 '23

Labeling by GPT

#showdev #githubhack23 #github #opensource

2 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

May 7 '23

How Open Source Enabled Kubernetes’ Success

#opensource #kubernetes #google #microsoft

5 min read

Maxime

Jun 3 '23

Next level data privacy with easy, free and secure self hosting at home

#docker #opensource #selfhosting #privacy

16 min read

Jun 11 '23

PostgreSQL's Foreign Data Wrappers

#apache #database #opensource #postgres

8 min read

Precious Abubakar

Jun 10 '23

Understanding Software Licenses: A Developer's Guide

#softwareengineering #opensource #softwarelicensing #webdev

8 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

May 22 '23

How to host your side-projects for free in 2023: from Auth to Database

#opensource #webdev #devops #productivity

6 min read

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