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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 18

Building DownloadStuffs: A Modern UI for the Internet Archive

#showdev #opensource #ui #webdev

2 min read

Feb 7

Why I use Typetify: A Type-Safe Alternative to Lodash

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Douxx

Feb 7

How I Built a Random Number Generator (Sort Of)

#programming #radio #python #opensource

8 min read

~K'

Jan 19

Designing Better Compiler Diagnostics — Lessons from building Klar

#showdev #compiling #opensource #programming

2 min read

Max

Jan 18

I let the internet vote on what code gets merged weekly. Week 2: they voted to merge every day.

#opensource #github #webdev #programming

4 min read

Seryl Lns

Feb 10

Building DataPorter #1 — Why Build a Data Import Engine?

#ruby #rails #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Jean-philippe Ulpiano

Jan 18

📱 Your Child Is Still Awake: Raising Kids in a World of Screens and AI

#showdev #opensource #parenting #firefox

4 min read

freerave

Jan 18

Transform VS Code into a Spiritual Environment: Meet CodeTune v1.0 🚀

#vscode #opensource #productivity #typescript

2 min read

Amir Reza Dalir for DiPhyx

Feb 10

Eliminate 80% of Nuxt store boilerplate with a single createStore call

#vue #nuxt #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Jan 31

Building a regime-switching particle filter in Rust — from Kalman 1960 to rayon-parallelized Monte Carlo

#rust #python #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Jan 30

I Built a Job Queue That's 32x Faster Than BullMQ (No Redis Required)

#bunjs #typescript #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Galgaldas

Jan 18

My new open source got 200+ stars on GitHub

#webdev #programming #opensource #php

1 min read

Prathamesh

Jan 18

🎬 MovieMania: Join Our Open-Source MERN Movie Tracking Platform — Contributors Wanted!"

#opensource #mern #react #webdev

2 min read

Jan 18

Just open sourced a dating platform under a custom OSI-compatible license (CPL-1.0) — would love feedback on the license itself

#opensource

2 min read

Jan 18

Making AI Data Flows Visible: Building an Open-Source Tool to Understand SaaS & LLM Data Risk

#ai #dataengineering #privacy #opensource

3 min read

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