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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.

submission guidelines

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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Nov 14 '24

Scan for CLI flags and arguments using MRI package

#javascript #opensource #typescript #cli

4 min read

Tania Chakraborty

Nov 13 '24

Ready, Set, Hack: Beginner AI Dev Hackathon

#hackathon #ai #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Oct 15 '24

In the wake of the xz utils hack, two-thirds of maintainers are less trusting of contributors

#opensource #maintainers #survey #xz

6 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Nov 13 '24

✅What is the difference between fetch and XMLHTTPRequest?

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Gautam Manchandani

Oct 10 '24

Hackatoberfest-2024 First Contribution

#github #webdev #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Nov 13 '24

RepoTree: Generate ASCII Tree from GitHub Repositories

#webdev #opensource #learning #javascript

1 min read

Sivalokesh

Oct 10 '24

Optimizing Stream API Usage in Java for Large Data Sets

#webdev #java #programming #opensource

1 min read

Nov 13 '24

Feature Toggles Are Secretly Wrecking Your Front-End: Here's How to Fix the Mess

#webdev #beginners #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Nov 13 '24

11 Best Debugging Tools For All Developers! 💻 🛠️ 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

9 min read

Devarno

Nov 13 '24

Password, please! – Building an open source password generator with FastAPI

#python #fastapi #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Kim Nguyen

Oct 10 '24

A Simple CLI for Managing VSCode Workspaces

#vscode #opensource

2 min read

Nov 13 '24

Why Feature Toggles Could Be Your Front-End's Worst Nightmare

#webdev #opensource #frontend #typescript

3 min read

Rizèl Scarlett

Nov 12 '24

How to Extend your AI Agent for Custom Developer Workflows

#ai #opensource #programming #goose

7 min read

Jing for Chat2DB

Nov 13 '24

SQL for Data Validation: Implementing Business Rules and Constraints

#sql #database #opensource #ai

5 min read

XWiki

Oct 10 '24

A look back to XWiki's 20 years anniversary

#opensource

1 min read

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