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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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Aug 23 '22

Launching Crawlee, the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js

#javascript #node #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Nathan

Aug 22 '22

The first Open-Sourced API security testing tool CI/CD integrated.

#security #api #opensource #rust

3 min read

Heloisa Moraes for Codacy

Aug 23 '22

How to contribute to an open source project

#opensource #programming #github #git

7 min read

Shubhendra Singh Chauhan for ToolJet

Aug 22 '22

Building a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) file explorer app in 30 minutes

#showdev #webdev #programming #opensource

9 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 22 '22

How to build a blockquote component in Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource #flowbite

3 min read

Andrzej Krzywda

Aug 22 '22

Authentication events and commands

#opensource #programming #cqrs #ruby

4 min read

Adriana Villela for Lightstep

Aug 22 '22

Auto-Instrumentation is Magic: Using OpenTelemetry Python with Lightstep

#tutorial #opensource #opentelemetry #observability

15 min read

Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen for The Transient Thoughts of a Restless Mind

Aug 22 '22

Angular CLI example for Jest Preview - the visual debugger for Jest

#angular #jest #opensource #testing

2 min read

Heloisa Moraes for Codacy

Aug 22 '22

Best practices to manage an open source project

#opensource #github #management #programming

7 min read

Eduardo Blancas

Aug 1 '22

Tips and Tricks to Use Jupyter Notebooks Effectively

#datascience #machinelearning #jupyter #opensource

4 min read

tom

Aug 22 '22

HertzBeat - An open-source monitoring system with custom and agentless.

#opensource #product #monitoring

1 min read

Aug 22 '22

Svelte Logic Blocks

#javascript #svelte #programming #opensource

3 min read

Stefan Sundin for AWS Community Builders

Aug 22 '22

Introducing s3verify: verify that a local file is identical to an S3 object without having to download the object data

#aws #s3 #opensource

4 min read

neoan

Aug 21 '22

i18n: A lot to think about

#tutorial #php #opensource #a11y

7 min read

Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen for The Transient Thoughts of a Restless Mind

Aug 21 '22

Docusaurus website for Analog.js - the full-stack meta-framework for Angular using Vite

#angular #vite #docusaurus #opensource

2 min read

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