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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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Lucy for Intuit Developers

Jul 31 '24

Getting Started with GraphQL

#graphql #opensource #beginners #programming

13 min read

Ariel for Stacklok

Aug 2 '24

NPM packages leveraged for cryptocurrency theft

#npm #opensource #cybersecurity #security

5 min read

Paul

Aug 2 '24

Updates: Free and open-source landing page

#opensource #webdev #javascript #frontend

1 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 2 '24

Personal access tokens, machine-to-machine authentication, and API Keys definition and their real-world scenarios

#webdev #api #identity #opensource

8 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 2 '24

Little tricks to improve your customer onboarding experience

#webdev #identity #opensource #saas

3 min read

John Robb for xyflow

Jul 22 '24

Create a slide show presentation with React Flow

#tutorial #react #opensource #slideshow

15 min read

Aug 2 '24

K8S - How to use EKS (AWS) Refresh token

#kubernetes #aws #opensource #scala

3 min read

Lulu

Aug 2 '24

Unlock a New Era of Cybersecurity: Free and Open-Source WAF Makes Website Protection Effortless!

#opensource #github #cybersecurity #websecurity

2 min read

Vaunt

Aug 13 '24

GitHub for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide

#git #github #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Jul 27 '24

Your code is NOT special.

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Aug 2 '24

Top 5 Open Source AI Image Generators: Free Tools for Creative Projects

#opensource #ai #tools

8 min read

Aug 1 '24

How to contribute to open source projects

#webdev #opensource #angular #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

H A R S H H A A for ProDevOpsGuy Tech Community

Aug 1 '24

Real-Time Resume Ready DevOps Projects

#devops #opensource #beginners #sideprojects

3 min read

Jul 3 '24

Published my first npm package: react-popupify!

#react #npm #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Chiemezuo

Aug 1 '24

GSoC Week 9

#opensource #gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail

3 min read

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