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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 15

🌐 🚀 Top 400 Websites every developer should know 🌟 AND🔥 200 Project Ideas from Beginner to Advanced

#discuss #productivity #developer #opensource

99 min read

Judy

Dec 16 '24

The Data Lake’s Impossible Triangle

#discuss #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Jenuel Oras Ganawed

Jan 14

Animation Library You Can Use for your Web Apps

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jan 14

15 Open Source Projects Every Developer Needs to Bookmark 📚👨‍💻

#webdev #opensource #productivity #github

5 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Jan 14

Supercharge Your JavaScript Agents with Firecrawl in KaibanJS

#javascript #ai #opensource #coding

3 min read

Team TigerData for TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 14

Tutorial: How We Built a Reverse Video Search System Directly in PostgreSQL

#tutorial #ai #postgres #opensource

10 min read

TailAdmin

Feb 19

Open-Source Tailwind CSS Admin Dashboard Templates

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

5 min read

Piotr Kulpinski

Jan 14

7 Open-Source Tools for Better Website Analytics

#opensource #software #analytics #productivity

5 min read

Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Jan 14

Managing application state in Puck

#webdev #opensource #javascript #react

10 min read

jake r

Jan 14

Open-Source React Icon Picker: Lightweight, Customizable, and Built with ShadCN, TailwindCSS. Perfect for Next.js Projects!

#nextjs #react #opensource #tailwindcss

1 min read

jake r

Jan 14

Open-Source TailwindCSS React Color Picker - Zero Dependencies! Perfect for Next.js Projects!

#opensource #nextjs #react #tailwindcss

1 min read

Vin Cooper

Jan 14

Procrastinator’s Guide to Glory: Turning Wasted Time Into Career Gold with Open Source

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #productivity

3 min read

Judy

Jan 14

SPL: a database language featuring easy writing and fast running

#programming #beginners #devops #opensource

14 min read

Jan 14

Have you ever used `git submodules`?

#opensource #nextjs #submodules

3 min read

Jan 14

✨ Introducing Tooltip: A Revolutionary Suite of Developer Tools** ✨

#discuss #githubchallenge #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Oleksandr Viktor

Jan 13

Experiment with a universal CRUD API using UkrGuru.Sql

#webdev #api #opensource #dotnet

3 min read

Jan 13

All Data and AI Weekly #172 for 13 January 2025

#opensource #snowflake #ai #genai

3 min read

Jan 13

Pulumi Wasm/Rust devlog #3

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

2 min read

Jan 13

Building Streak Calendar: My Journey into Open-Source with the Help of AI

#productivity #webdev #opensource #backend

5 min read

Feb 3

🚀 Human-Regex: Write Readable Regular Expressions Like English

#javascript #opensource #regex #webdev

2 min read

Jan 13

What is Docker Volume

#docker #devops #cloud #opensource

6 min read

Abubaker Siddique

Jan 13

Must-Know Python Open Source Projects for 2025

#python #ai #opensource #programming

6 min read

Okoye Ndidiamaka

Jan 13

Contributing to Open Source: How to Get Started and Make an Impact

#opensource #coding #github #programming

4 min read

arinak1017

Dec 10 '24

The Open Source Finale: Pt. 2

#opensource

7 min read

Jan 13

What I learned managing my first open source

#opensource #tutorial #learning #github

7 min read

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