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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 13 '24

A web app companion for using GPT - ChatCraft

#opensource #ai #webapp #programming

2 min read

Jan 23 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained — Part 1.3

#opensource #nextjs #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Jan 23 '24

150+ AI agents sorted by use cases

#productivity #opensource #coding #datascience

3 min read

Yasunori Kirimoto for AWS Heroes

Jan 23 '24

A Summary of My Activities in the 5 Years Since Discovering AWS Amplify

#amplify #aws #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 22 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #185

#opensource #aws

13 min read

fmerian for crowd.dev

Jan 19 '24

I analyzed the 14 best open-source products launched on Product Hunt in 2023. Here's what I found.

#startup #developer #marketing #opensource

1 min read

Sabrina for Qdrant

Jan 25 '24

What is a Vector Database?

#ai #opensource #database #tutorial

8 min read

Bhawana

Jan 23 '24

Jenkins Tutorial for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples

#jenkins #tutorial #testing #opensource

6 min read

Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Jan 18 '24

Responsibilities of a Code of Conduct Responder

#mentor #career #community #opensource

4 min read

Tomeq34

Jan 23 '24

How to disable a button in JavaScript

#javascript #button #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Jan 22 '24

Playwright Docker Tutorial: Detailed Guide With Example

#playwright #opensource #tutorial #testing

35 min read

Jan 22 '24

Clean up your code with ease

#javascript #frontend #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Rudransh Bhardwaj

Jan 21 '24

Your AI Code Reviewer in CLI

#discuss #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Raj Nandan Sharma

Jan 22 '24

Status page + Batteries

#github #opensource #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Jan 28 '24

Translating Database Queries

#database #esproc #opensource #sql

3 min read

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