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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 22 '24

My Journey with Cloudflare Workers: Learning and Implementing Feeds

#opensource #typescript #feed #cloudflare

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Mar 19 '24

How to Build Your Open Source Dream Team: A Guide

#opensource #beginners #github #codenewbie

5 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Feb 28 '24

I'm Building a Full-Stack App: Here Are the Libraries I'm Going to Use...

#opensource #programming #beginners #javascript

17 min read

Heather Stevens for Bitovi

Mar 22 '24

Hatchify: The Fastest Way to Build JSON: APIs

#api #opensource #react #productivity

4 min read

Mar 22 '24

Lessons from open-source: Have you ever used console object like this `console[consoleMethod](‘’)`?

#javascript #react #opensource #nextjs

4 min read

AbcSxyZ

Mar 22 '24

The open source image ?

#opensource #openeducation #metaverse

2 min read

Marine for Taipy

Mar 20 '24

Python for AI : Cheatlist

#programming #python #ai #opensource

6 min read

Karthik Baleneni

Mar 20 '24

What is VSCodium ? Better than VS code ?

#javascript #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Aniketh Deshpande

Mar 22 '24

Cache Aside

#gratitude #tailwindcss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Mar 11 '24

FLaNK AI for 11 March 2024

#apachenifi #apachekafka #llm #opensource

6 min read

Shrijal Acharya

Mar 17 '24

✌️4 core developer tools I use in my daily life 🚀😎

#productivity #devops #opensource #programming

4 min read

Mar 21 '24

Lessons from open-source: Use picocolors to format terminal output with colors

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #react

3 min read

Mar 22 '24

signed-off-by at PyCharm

#git #cloudforet #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Antonello Zanini for Apostrophe

Mar 21 '24

How to Integrate Astro with ApostropheCMS pt. 2

#javascript #opensource #tutorial #devops

14 min read

Matija Sosic for Wasp

Mar 5 '24

🎉 Our web framework reached 9,000 stars on GitHub! ⭐️ 9️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ ⭐️

#news #webdev #opensource #javascript

3 min read

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