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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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Sep 12 '24

Deploying a Node.js Application on AWS EC2: A Step-by-Step Guide

#devops #opensource #learning #cloud

4 min read

Ingila Ejaz for This is Learning

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Monorepos with Nx: Why You Might Want a Single Home for All Your Code

#javascript #typescript #opensource #git

3 min read

Samreen

Sep 12 '24

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#webdev #beginners #learning #opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 12 '24

The Human Dependency Graph: Why We Need to Rethink Security in Open Source

#opensource #security

4 min read

Sep 12 '24

createWithEqualityFnImpl in Zustand’s source code explained.

#javascript #opensource #typescript #zustand

3 min read

Miguel Ángel Cabrera Miñagorri

Sep 12 '24

Offloading AI inference to your users' devices

#ai #api #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Lulu

Sep 12 '24

Simple, Easy-to-Use, and Open-Source Web Application Firewall

#opensource #cybersecurity #docker #devops

2 min read

Sep 12 '24

An Extensive Open-Source Collection of AI Agent Implementations with Multiple Use Cases and Levels

#ai #genai #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Harsh S

Aug 9 '24

Encache v1.1 !!

#javascript #opensource #npm #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Sep 12 '24

First collaboration with the open source community

#opensource #github #community

6 min read

Jan Dvorak for Meteor

Sep 11 '24

Introducing Meteor Work Groups

#news #meteor #opensource #community

3 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Sep 10 '24

How the Ruby Repository Masters Fast Merges: Cutting Corners or Genius Efficiency?

#ruby #opensource #development #softwaredevelopment

8 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Sep 12 '24

Source Code Analysis of Apache SeaTunnel Zeta Engine (Part 2): Task Submission Process on the Client Side

#coding #apacheseatunnel #datascience #opensource

17 min read

Aug 10 '24

Building a multi-tenant application with honeystone/context

#laravel #php #saas #opensource

6 min read

Sep 1 '24

FileBrowser Installation Steps from Source Code on Ubuntu 24.04

#filebrowser #go #cloudstorage #opensource

2 min read

Atai Barkai for CopilotKit

Oct 16 '24

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#news #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Aug 22 '24

Beginners JavaScript

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Sep 11 '24

Interview with Victor Aremu, Creator of Menote, Usezap and more!

#tauri #rust #opensource #interview

1 min read

Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

Aug 22 '24

Building jargons.dev [#3]: The Word Editor

#javascript #buildinpublic #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Milica Maksimovic for Wasp

Sep 11 '24

The Faces Behind Open Source Projects: Tim Jones and pg-boss

#news #postgres #opensource #webdev

10 min read

Manik Aggarwal for Tegon

Sep 11 '24

How we simplified Bug Tracking using Tegon Slack Actions 🚀🚀

#automation #typescript #opensource #ai

2 min read

Sep 12 '24

fabric.js implements custom preview effects for clothing/merchandise

#webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Sep 10 '24

Build a CLI in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

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mahdi

Sep 11 '24

Introducing Agas 1.0.0

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

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Palomino for Logto

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Conventional commits won't save your commit messages

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

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