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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.

submission guidelines

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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Aphanite

May 21 '24

Less Is More When Prompting - A live example on how to combine CoT with JSON

#opensource #ai #promptengineering #llm

7 min read

Nathan Tarbert for Winglang

May 16 '24

Building your own ChatGPT Graphical Client with NextJS and Wing 🤯

#webdev #programming #opensource #javascript

10 min read

May 20 '24

Monorepo architecture in shadcn-ui/ui.

#javascript #opensource #shadcnui #nextjs

3 min read

Rita Nkem Daniel

May 21 '24

My Open Source Journey with OpenSauced: From Beginner to Confident Contributor

#opensauced #opensource #beginners #webdev

3 min read

May 21 '24

What coding languages should I learn?

#beginners #programming #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Nnaemeka Daniel John

May 21 '24

CoduimAI's New Cover-Agent: The Ultimate Guide

#productivity #ai #testing #opensource

4 min read

Cristian Zapata

Apr 18 '24

Mastering variable renaming with gn motion

#vim #webdev #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Santiago

May 21 '24

Turning Text into Audio: A Journey with Text2AudioBook

#programming #python #opensource #automation

5 min read

Apr 21 '24

GitHub Sponsors: Oliver Blanthorn main developer of Tridactyl

#github #opensource #firefox #vim

2 min read

May 21 '24

Fakeish

#ruby #rails #testing #opensource

3 min read

junyu

May 21 '24

🔥 Meet genson-rs: Blazing-Fast JSON Schema Generation for Gigabytes of Data! 🚀

#rust #opensource #performance #terminal

1 min read

Jen Wike Huger for OpenProject

May 20 '24

Which AI feature would you want MOST from your project management tool?

#productivity #ai #devops #opensource

1 min read

coscup programs

May 9 '24

Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters (COSCUP)

#techtalks #conference #opensource #free

4 min read

Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

May 20 '24

Agent Cloud vs Qdrant

#opensource #productivity #programming #ai

9 min read

Dhanush N

May 18 '24

I created an Open Source Custom Code Editor

#showdev #opensource #github #codenewbie

2 min read

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