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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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Srinivasulu Paranduru for AWS Community Builders

Apr 8

Introduction to OpenTofu

#opensource #iac #opentofu

4 min read

Ruthel Cedrick Ascens BALOCK

Apr 6

I added callbacks, i18n, sorting & pagination to my React accounting component — here's what changed

#react #typescript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

eddylee

May 9

Filling a maintainer's "Help needed": shipping a Next.js 16 Redis cache handler

#nextjs #redis #opensource #devops

10 min read

Calvin Li

Apr 7

From a single topic to a multi-minutes AI video

#showdev #ai #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

May 10

I Built a Smarter 20-20-20 App Because Every Other One Annoyed Me

#opensource #productivity #health #indiehacker

1 min read

Isaac Lee

Apr 27

Codemod for ignoring lint errors

#showdev #javascript #ember #opensource

2 min read

spupuz

Apr 6

VibeNVR v1.25.3 – Open-source, self-hosted NVR for IP cameras

#opensource #selfhosted #privacy #docker

1 min read

Navid

Apr 6

Spectrelang - A design by contract programming language built for correctness and low-level control

#programming #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Apr 6

Bharataddress v0.2 — The Complete Open Source Indian Address Toolkit

#webdev #opensource #beginners #python

1 min read

Alessio Battistutta

Apr 11

Tomato — Visual DAG editor for NixOS configurations

#nixos #elixir #infrastructure #opensource

1 min read

S. M. Gitandu, B.S.

Apr 6

Agent-to-User Interfaces (A2UI): A Deterministic Framework for Machine-Readable Knowledge Systems.

#ai #webdev #opensource #dataengineering

5 min read

Guang Hu

Apr 6

How I built a Norwegian VAT filing library in Java (and what nearly broke me)

#java #opensource #norway #tutorial

3 min read

nareshipme

Apr 6

framewebworker: Browser-Native Video Rendering with OffscreenCanvas, Web Workers, and ffmpeg.wasm

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

3 min read

Mohammad Raziei

Apr 6

The Real Size of AI Frameworks: A Wake-Up Call

#ai #programming #python #opensource

3 min read

CodeWarrior4Life

Apr 6

I Got Tired of Hunting Screenshot Paths in Terminals. So I Fixed Ctrl+V.

#python #terminal #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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