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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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5 Key Aspects of Learning a Programming Language

#programming #learning #opensource #beginners

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Remi W.

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#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

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Dmitriy Derepko

Mar 10 '24

A way to mock PHP internal functions with xepozz/internal-mocker

#php #testing #mock #opensource

3 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Mar 9 '24

Getting an Open Source Project ON Track for Release

#webdev #opensource #react #nlp

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Mar 9 '24

Biometric authentication with Passkeys

#security #tutorial #javascript #opensource

6 min read

DASWU

Feb 18 '24

From Object Storage to K8s+JuiceFS: 85% Storage Cost Cut, HDFS-Level Performance

#opensource

9 min read

aldin for developuls

Feb 29 '24

Start your own (side) business with open-source in mind

#opensource #startup #astro #vercel

4 min read

Suneeh

Mar 9 '24

Hello World!

#webdev #programming #opensource #typescript

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Katie Liu

Mar 9 '24

ChatCraft week 8: Successful refactoring PR!

#chatgpt #chatcraft #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Mar 9 '24

ChatCraft Adventures #8

#beginners #opensource #openai #webdev

3 min read

Mar 8 '24

Lessons from open-source: Use Symbol in Javascript to avoid name collisions

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #react

3 min read

Gérôme Grignon

Mar 8 '24

Display Angular @empty block at the right time!

#angular #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Katie Liu

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ChatCraft week 6: Refactoring code

#chatcraft #opensource #chatgpt #typescript

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Mar 8 '24

GSoC 2024 Roadmap | Tips, Mistakes to Avoid | Complete Guide to Google Summer of Code and Open Source

#gsoc #opensource

1 min read

Harshad Manglani

Mar 8 '24

Polaris: a workflow orchestrator in Go

#go #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

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