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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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Konstantin Semianov

Dec 9 '22

Building a hexagonal grid with the SwiftUI Layout protocol

#opensource #react #javascript #webdev

5 min read

Dec 8 '22

How to Get Started With Node and NVM on MacOS (M1/ M2) in 2023

#ai #machinelearning #a11y #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 7 '22

React, Tremor & Tailwind - Coder Stats via GitHub API

#webdev #react #tailwindcss #opensource

2 min read

Dec 5 '22

Will ChatGPT replace StackOverflow?

#tooling #opensource #github

4 min read

Dec 8 '22

Day 8: Adding CI to Perl::Efl - sometimes you need to do some extra work

#perl #opensource #programming #devops

4 min read

Takaharu Yamamoto

Dec 8 '22

Build an Admin Panel Fast with Rails7 and Infold

#rails #opensource #admin #gem

10 min read

Nov 8 '22

Linux Commands

#linux #operatingsystem #opensource #devjournal

3 min read

Dec 7 '22

Day 7: Be pragmatic setting up CI for the RDF::KV

#opensource #beginners #perl #devops

3 min read

Dec 7 '22

MinIO - Mock S3 in local development

#webdev #cloud #opensource #aws

4 min read

Franck Pachot for YugabyteDB

Dec 7 '22

Partial Index as an approximate Count(*) Materialized View

#community #opensource

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Dec 7 '22

💡Luos is looking for native testers

#opensource #testing #native #luos

1 min read

Jack Lin

Dec 7 '22

Using LIS302DL Three-Axis Accelerometer and External Interrupt on Stm32f407g

#discuss #opensource #devops #github

3 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 6 '22

Flask & MongoDB - Material Kit (free sample)

#webdev #flask #mongodb #opensource

4 min read

Keshav Malik for GitGuardian

Dec 7 '22

9 Things to Consider When Choosing an SCA Tool

#opensource #security #beginners #programming

7 min read

Dec 6 '22

Day 6: GitHub Actions CI for the pcr_optimizer Python package

#python #opensource #programming #devops

3 min read

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