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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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Sep 6 '22

Published Chrome extension for streamlined React development🎉

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Hasura for Hasura

Sep 6 '22

Instant streaming APIs with built-in authorization for new or existing Postgres

#graphql #postgres #api #opensource

10 min read

Tomer Barnea for novu

Aug 31 '22

Open Source Redesigned

#webdev #opensource #css #design

3 min read

Sep 6 '22

Digital Compositing on Mobile

#mobile #opensource #ux #swift

5 min read

Sep 6 '22

From Chaining/Blending to Compositing Core Image CIFilter

#swift #ios #opensource

5 min read

Sep 5 '22

My Key Takeaways From The Campus DevRel Show | Juan Pablo Flores E2

#opensource #beginners #github #career

5 min read

Archer Allstars

Sep 5 '22

Let's fine tune your zRAM AKA Free RAM in openSUSE with Zstandard AKA zstd

#linux #opensource #productivity #beginners

6 min read

Raffi Sarkissian for Lago

Sep 5 '22

The 5 reasons why we chose open source for our Billing API

#opensource #api

3 min read

Igor Perepilitsyn

Sep 4 '22

9 shell tools for productivity

#programming #productivity #opensource #devjournal

3 min read

Kaushik Varanasi

Aug 30 '22

How to build a real-time movie voting system using React.js 🤯

#showdev #react #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Sep 4 '22

Track Anyone's IP Address using Python

#python #opensource #api #programming

1 min read

Sep 3 '22

Creating an Operating System: The Journey

#programming #osdev #assembly #opensource

5 min read

Buddhadeb Chhetri

Sep 3 '22

10 Useful Android Library for Every New Developer

#android #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 2 '22

AWS open source news and updates #125

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Aug 30 '22

How to handle dart application exceptions ?

#dart #monitoring #opensource #testing

2 min read

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