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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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Ievgenii Gryshkun

May 22

The Magento multi-store bug every AI description generator has — and how we fixed it

#magento #ai #opensource #php

5 min read

Knipper Mccarville

Apr 29

How I Built a NASA-Style Name Generator with Next.js and Canvas API

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

Oatnil

Apr 29

Access Anywhere — Web, Desktop, CLI, and Beyond

#productivity #devtools #opensource #selfhosted

5 min read

Ilia Alshanetsky

Apr 28

It's Alive! statgrab Returns After 20 Years

#showdev #php #linux #opensource

7 min read

Luis

Apr 28

Your auth server shouldn't cost more RAM than your entire app. So I wrote my own in Rust.

#security #opensource #productivity #rust

4 min read

Apr 29

How to Generate Scheduled PDF Reports from Grafana OSS (and earn $2K-$5K helping clients do it)

#devops #opensource #msp #isp

4 min read

Apr 29

Is PHP the Rockstar of the Servers?

#backend #opensource #php #webdev

2 min read

Shubhagyta Swaraj Jayswal

May 3

Built a context firewall for AI coding tools over the weekend : here's why and how

#python #security #ai #opensource

1 min read

GitHub “Finish-Up-A-Thon” Challenge Submission

Abdelrahman Farag

May 22

We analysed 396 breaking dependency releases. Here's what they have in common.

#npm #devops #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Md Rakibul Haque Sardar

Apr 29

Flutter + Supabase Full-Stack Starter the Fast Way with FlutterSeed

#flutter #flutterdev #mobiledev #opensource

3 min read

Canaddons

Apr 29

What if your OS could think?

#ai #programming #javascript #opensource

5 min read

May 3

The Grey Enemy and the Copilot Friend Who’s Turning My GitHub Green

#github #githubcopilot #opensource #ai

12 min read

Peter Nasarah Dashe

May 11

🚀 Permi v0.3.0 – Major Improvements to JS Scanning, AI Accuracy, and Speed

#security #opensource #python #webdev

2 min read

Apr 28

stenoAI: 690+🌟 Opensource alternative to Granola, AI for your most confidential conversations

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

MMG

May 12

Best way to find open source projects for a returning developer to contribute meaningfully

#help #opensource

1 min read

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