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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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May 22 '24

What’s in a name? Making Sense of Apache Kafka’s auto.offset.reset

#kafka #opensource #backend #programming

5 min read

Jeff Tao

Apr 19 '24

Is Closed-Source Software Really More Secure?

#opensource #security

3 min read

May 22 '24

Find out how the Ora package is used to show a CLI spinner in shadcn-ui/ui source code.

#javascript #opensource #shadcnui #nextjs

2 min read

May 22 '24

Understanding Python Bytecode and the Virtual Machine for Better Development

#python #programming #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Tiexin Guo for GitGuardian

May 22 '24

Open-Source Software Security

#opensource #security #learning

11 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 4 '24

How to Find Open Source Projects to Contribute To

#opensource #beginners

4 min read

May 1 '24

Opensource Installation

#opensource #python #devops #github

1 min read

May 22 '24

Why Godot is a Game Changer in Game Development

#gamedev #godot #godotengine #opensource

3 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

May 17 '24

Debunking Common Kubernetes Myths

#kubernetes #docker #devops #opensource

4 min read

Samagra Shrivastava

May 22 '24

How To Learn Python in 2024: 10 Online Resources

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

5 min read

May 22 '24

Dr. House — AI Diagnostician in your phone. Passing the Startup Torch to Capable Hands

#startup #opensource #mobile #ai

3 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jun 7 '24

The Easiest Way to Get Started with Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

May 21 '24

getRegistryIndex() function in shadcn-ui/ui source code.

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

2 min read

GIGO Dev

May 21 '24

How to Contribute to the Open Source Learn to Code Platform GIGO Dev

#opensource #github #coding #programming

3 min read

May 21 '24

GitHub Sponsors 💰 and Perl 🐫

#github #opensource #perl

1 min read

Aphanite

May 21 '24

Less Is More When Prompting - A live example on how to combine CoT with JSON

#opensource #ai #promptengineering #llm

7 min read

May 20 '24

Meet Codiumate - Your coding Agent🤖

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

May 20 '24

Monorepo architecture in shadcn-ui/ui.

#javascript #opensource #shadcnui #nextjs

3 min read

Rita Nkem Daniel

May 21 '24

My Open Source Journey with OpenSauced: From Beginner to Confident Contributor

#opensauced #opensource #beginners #webdev

3 min read

May 21 '24

What coding languages should I learn?

#beginners #programming #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Nnaemeka Daniel John

May 21 '24

CoduimAI's New Cover-Agent: The Ultimate Guide

#productivity #ai #testing #opensource

4 min read

Cristian Zapata

Apr 18 '24

Mastering variable renaming with gn motion

#vim #webdev #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Santiago

May 21 '24

Turning Text into Audio: A Journey with Text2AudioBook

#programming #python #opensource #automation

5 min read

Apr 21 '24

GitHub Sponsors: Oliver Blanthorn main developer of Tridactyl

#github #opensource #firefox #vim

2 min read

May 21 '24

Fakeish

#ruby #rails #testing #opensource

3 min read

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