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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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Mar 5

I built an npm package that auto-generates a REST API from your Prisma schema

#node #typescript #prisma #opensource

3 min read

Feb 23

Introducing Slide-CN

#react #opensource #ai #webdev

3 min read

Mar 5

NumWiz: A Complete Number Utility Library for JavaScript & TypeScript — From Arithmetic to Scientific Computing

#typescript #javascript #opensource #math

14 min read

Mar 5

JPA fetch control that doesn't suck

#java #jpa #hibernate #opensource

4 min read

Jan 29

Supercheck: Open Source AI-Powered Test Automation & Monitoring Platform

#monitoring #testing #playwright #opensource

2 min read

Polliog

Feb 3

TimescaleDB Compression: From 150GB to 15GB (90% Reduction, Real Production Data)

#postgres #opensource #programming #database

12 min read

Mar 5

I Built a 1-Line Observability Package for Express & Fastify Zero Dependencies, Full TypeScript

#javascript #node #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Seryl Lns

Mar 5

Building a Rails Engine #8 — Real-time Progress with ActionCable & Stimulus

#webdev #rails #ruby #opensource

5 min read

Siddhartha Mishra

Mar 5

Introducing SnapbitTools

#webdev #devtools #opensource #privacy

5 min read

Mar 5

Your Claude Code Bill is Growing, here's How to Control It

#ai #llm #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Brobits

Jan 31

Brobitz - MuicPlayer

#webdev #programming #opensource #electron

1 min read

Wes

Mar 5

I Let an AI Agent Use My Browser Tool Unsupervised. It Found 3 Bugs in 20 Minutes.

#mcp #ai #webdev #opensource

5 min read

techtech

Mar 5

Bento.me is Gone, so I Built My Own (For Free)

#webdev #opensource #linktree #bio

2 min read

Mirko Dimartino

Mar 5

Stop Writing Raw Regex in Java

#java #programming #opensource #regex

2 min read

Mar 5

After Building So Many WordPress Plugins, I Made WPPF

#wordpress #php #opensource #webdev

5 min read

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