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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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divyesh vekariya

Jan 22

Explore Free APIs for Your Projects

#opensource #api #mobile #webdev

1 min read

Hasan

Jan 11

TDD: No, Not Test-Driven Development; Let’s Talk Technical Design Documents

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Long Bui

Dec 19 '24

Your Open Source Data Platform Starter Kit

#opensource #devops #architecture #tooling

1 min read

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

Announcing RateMyOpenAPI!

#opensource

2 min read

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

Day 5 - Announcing v2 of react-api-key-manager

#opensource #security

1 min read

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

jsonmergepatch.com: Free JSON Merge Patch Tool and API

#architecture #opensource

3 min read

Jan 22

Log Viewer for Next.js Server Side: Node.js

#nextjs #node #opensource #api

5 min read

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

Day 2 - Announcing our Open-Source React Component

#opensource #security

7 min read

Jemmy Dalsaniya

Jan 22

Git and Github

#git #github #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Jan 22

PHP Supabase Comments

#supabase #php #opensource #supacomments

1 min read

Uday Rana

Jan 21

Reviving An Outdated Project

#opensource #javascript #osd700

3 min read

MindsDB Team for MindsDB

Jan 21

Building AI Agents With Your Enterprise Data: A Developer’s Guide

#ai #machinelearning #sql #opensource

11 min read

Jan 20

Design Patterns in Golang: A Comprehensive Guide

#go #opensource #backend #beginners

4 min read

Dec 18 '24

Class Society in Open Source

#opensource

4 min read

haimzlato

Dec 18 '24

Hacking the Python Import System and Rewriting the AST For Durable Execution

#python #opensource #webdev #programming

1 min read

Sergey Ilyevsky

Jan 21

Open Source Software Weaknesses – And a Possible Solution

#opensource #development

8 min read

Judy

Jan 21

Calculate prime number table within 10000 using screening method

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

3 min read

Chen Debra

Dec 18 '24

Apache DolphinScheduler Restricts Timing Scheduling at the Second Level

#javascript #dolphinscheduler #opensource #technical

4 min read

Gittech

Dec 18 '24

Github's Top 31 items of Dec 18, 2024

#git #github #productivity #opensource

12 min read

Jan 21

Ode to one diagnostic rule and to couple more, or Jellyfin check

#csharp #opensource #programming

9 min read

Jan 21

Locating the toolbar code in the Grida codebase.

#opensource #nextjs #figma #grida

3 min read

kiraaziz

Jan 20

What if we give tldraw superpowers? 🚀 Meet Neoflow!

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jan 21

The best Javascript library for structured logging

#javascript #webdev #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Trix Cyrus

Jan 21

Introducing Brute-XMLRPC: A Multi-Threaded WordPress Brute Force Tool 🛠️

#wordpress #cybersecurity #programming #opensource

1 min read

Muhammad Fahmi Rasyid

Jan 20

Building a Board Game with React: Lessons Learned

#react #gamedev #learning #opensource

4 min read

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