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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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Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Mar 28 '22

Generate Docs from OpenAPI 3.0 Definitions in Postman

#api #productivity #opensource #testing

3 min read

Jiawei Li

Mar 24 '22

Reduce Duplicated Styled Components? Check Here

#javascript #typescript #opensource #devops

1 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Mar 23 '22

Overview of Apache APISIX API Gateway Plugins

#programming #api #opensource #plugins

8 min read

Eionel

Mar 3 '22

Configuring Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control with Lens Spaces

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #developers

4 min read

tieje

Mar 24 '22

How to Listen to Events in ReactJS

#typescript #opensource #webdev #react

3 min read

Matt Lewis for AWS Heroes

Mar 23 '22

Adding AWS SSO and controlling permissions

#aws #opensource #security #tutorial

11 min read

Voltra

Mar 23 '22

gdpr-guard against GDPR-compliance's hassle

#showdev #javascript #opensource #gdpr

4 min read

A Serputov

Mar 23 '22

Inline Assembly Language. What is that?

#opensource #computerscience #webdev

3 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Mar 23 '22

DC motor control: Welcome to the jungle

#opensource #motor #tutorial #luos

1 min read

Mar 23 '22

Setting up projects & SDKs for Sentry self-hosted

#sentry #errormonitoring #sdks #opensource

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 22 '22

How to use a carousel slider with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource #webdev

7 min read

Vladimir Dementyev

Mar 22 '22

Rails-docker-box, or developing Rails within a dockerized environment

#rails #docker #opensource

6 min read

Mar 20 '22

6 Killer Productivity Apps for Programmers

#watercooler #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Mar 23 '22

Using authorizer on your Gatsby site

#gatsby #authorize #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Mar 22 '22

Set up Ecommerce Order Notifications on Slack in 5 minutes with Medusa

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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