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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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Why We Adopted a Synchronous API for the New TypeScript ORM

#typescript #orm #opensource #activerecord

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Arun Venkataswamy

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#ai #productivity #opensource #python

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Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

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#javascript #webdev #opensource #api

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Daniil Bazhenov

Jun 30 '24

Monitoring, troubleshooting, and query analytics for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

#kubernetes #postgres #opensource #database

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keploy

Jul 1 '24

JSON Escape and Unescape

#news #json #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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#flutter #opensource #dart #ai

1 min read

JkDev

Jun 30 '24

[Python] Tool Hacking Plus

#python #hacking #opensource #security

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Atsushi

Jun 19 '24

Introduction to GROWI TypeScript/JavaScript SDK (Part 1: CRUD operations on pages)

#sdk #opensource #growi #wiki

2 min read

Alexey Ryabov for datarockets

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Real-world open-source projects built with Next.js 14 and App Router

#nextjs #frontend #react #opensource

8 min read

Harry

May 31 '24

Best Practices for Fostering Collaboration with the Open-Source Community in 2024

#webdev #opensource #productivity #learning

8 min read

Adam Ross

Jun 29 '24

Dependency Updates: More to Do Than Review

#productivity #opensource #github #testing

3 min read

Paul

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Django SaaS Boilerplate - Speed up your SaaS development

#django #saas #djangosaas #opensource

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Eric Allam for Trigger.dev

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How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

10 min read

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shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 2.2

#javascript #opensource #shadcnui #nextjs

6 min read

Hari Lamichhane

Jun 28 '24

Introducing Animata

#webdev #react #animation #opensource

3 min read

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