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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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The Importance of Code Reviews in Software Development

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

David Myriel for Qdrant

Feb 13 '24

Best Practices for Massive-Scale Deployments: Multitenancy and Custom Sharding

#vectordatabase #devops #database #opensource

6 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

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#opensource #backend #baas #saas

6 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths

Feb 13 '24

Abiertas las Inscripciones para la Nueva Cohorte del Acelerador de GitHub: Impulsando la Innovación en IA con Código Abierto

#startup #opensource #github #ai

2 min read

Lymah

Feb 12 '24

Building in Public: Leveraging Tublian's AI Copilot for My Open Source Contributions

#opensource #aicopilot #softwaredevelopment #programming

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Feb 13 '24

HydePHP Version v1.5 Released

#hydephp #php #webdev #opensource

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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 12 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #188

#opensource #aws

14 min read

BestCodes

Feb 8 '24

⚡ I Made a JavaScript Library that Leaves Profanity Speechless! 🤬

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

7 min read

Rajesh Kumaravel

Feb 13 '24

Demystifying NPM and NPX: A Dive into Package Management

#node #npm #npx #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

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#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

4 min read

Pieces 🌟 for Pieces.app

Feb 12 '24

Pieces Open Source Meetup #4

#opensource #community #productivity #ai

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

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Using Finch to run Apache Airflow using mwaa-local-runner

#opensource #airflow #aws #finch

8 min read

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#opensource #nextjs #javascript #react

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Feb 11 '24

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Madden 2025

#javascript #opensource #eslint

4 min read

Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Feb 12 '24

TypeLib JS (part 2) - grouped types

#javascript #opensource #productivity #codequality

3 min read

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