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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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Nov 3 '22

10 Trending Github repositories / November, 3 2022

#github #opensource #rgh #programming

3 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Nov 23 '22

5 Best Free Platforms for Hosting Hobby Web Projects

#react #webdev #programming #opensource

15 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 23 '22

How to build a speed dial component with Tailwind CSS and JavaScript

#tailwindcss #webdev #tutorial #opensource

12 min read

klo2k

Nov 23 '22

Run Docker in WSL2 in 5 minutes (via systemd, without Docker Desktop!)

#opensource #webdev

2 min read

$mfrachet profile$

Marvin

Nov 23 '22

Feature flags at the edge with Progressively and Vercel (recipe)

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

4 min read

Nov 23 '22

Infinite scrolling and footer don't work well together (not even on DEV.to)

#webdev #opensource #ruby

1 min read

SeaQL

Nov 23 '22

What's new in SeaORM 0.10.x

#showdev #opensource #rust #githunt

7 min read

IcePanel

Nov 22 '22

A minimalist backend REST API in NodeJS

#node #opensource #api #github

4 min read

Sc0ra for Serverless By Theodo

Nov 22 '22

Serverless Contracts to the Rescue of your Fullstack Application

#serverless #typescript #aws #opensource

4 min read

TD

Nov 22 '22

Going serverless using Cloudflare Workers

#beginners #programming #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Alexander Samaniego

Nov 11 '22

DPS909 Blog - Lab 8: Testing

#opensource

3 min read

anshul137

Nov 11 '22

DPS909 Blog :LAB 8 Automated Testing

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Amit Pawar

Nov 22 '22

Best LeetCode extensions for productivity

#leetcode #opensource #programming #github

2 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Nov 20 '22

Implementing a feature with Vanilla JavaScript

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Jean-Phi Baconnais for Zenika

Nov 22 '22

Zenika - Bilan de l’Hacktoberfest 2022

#hacktoberfest #opensource

8 min read

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