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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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Jeff Tao

Apr 21 '23

What Is a Time-Series Database (TSDB) and Why Do I Need One?

#timeseries #database #opensource #tdengine

6 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

Apr 20 '23

Recommender System with Apache AGE

#opensource #postgres #database #graph

4 min read

Apr 3 '23

I made Express faster than Fastify (100x faster JSON, also NestJS)

#javascript #typescript #opensource #programming

6 min read

zvone187

Apr 20 '23

Generating negative tests with GPT-4

#javascript #webdev #productivity #opensource

8 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Apr 16 '23

GitHub Slash Commands!

#github #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Ekekenta Odionyenfe Clinton

Apr 19 '23

How to set up routing in Angular to create single-page applications

#javascript #angular #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Apr 19 '23

Extending Medusa Example: Build an Open Source Marketplace

#opensource #javascript #tutorial #webdev

15 min read

Hung Vu

Apr 19 '23

🍂Simplify the back end with low code solutions: Amplication, Supabase, and Appwirte overview

#webdev #opensource #programming #productivity

8 min read

Sebastian Huckleberry

Apr 19 '23

Visually explore OpenAI's Image APIs without coding custom UI

#vscode #productivity #opensource #bash

3 min read

Odewole Babatunde Samson for Hackmamba

Apr 19 '23

How to create a real-time classroom chat in Next.js with Appwrite and Pink Design

#javascript #nextjs #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

guto

Apr 18 '23

Por que você deveria aprender Crystal?

#crystal #programming #opensource #performance

3 min read

guto

Apr 18 '23

Why should you learn Crystal?

#crystal #programming #opensource #performance

3 min read

Rukesh Basukala

Apr 18 '23

Testing: Mock And Stub

#discuss #programming #opensource #aws

2 min read

BekahHW

Apr 3 '23

Why aren’t you contributing to open source?

#discuss #codenewbie #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Shannon McFarland for Outshift By Cisco

Apr 18 '23

VMClarity: What Happens During a Scan?

#sbom #opensource #appsec

2 min read

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