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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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John Pagley for Joyfill

Jul 3 '24

React-Hook-Form vs Formik: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

#react #forms #opensource #github

4 min read

Jul 1 '24

Top 5+ Free Shadcn UI & NextJS Boilerplates/Templates for 2024

#nextjs #webdev #opensource #resources

3 min read

Jul 3 '24

Patch your servers! It's time of regreSSHion

#security #vulnerability #opensource

1 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jul 2 '24

Farewell MongoDB: 5 reasons why you only need PostgreSQL

#webdev #programming #opensource #identity

4 min read

Jason Park

Jul 2 '24

A Beginner's Guide to Open Source Contributions on GitHub

#tutorial #beginners #github #opensource

6 min read

Jul 2 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 2.4

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

3 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jul 2 '24

Crafting a Node.js based framework SDK for Logto in minutes

#webdev #node #opensource #identity

5 min read

elliotxx

Jul 2 '24

🚀 Karpor Has Been Open-Sourced! We Build a Kubernetes Visualization Tool in the AI era

#kubernetes #opensource #cloudnative #ai

5 min read

Yan Levin

Jun 25 '24

HTTP 468 - Keyboard Required (Meme HTTP Code)

#jokes #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Jul 1 '24

Open Source Etiquette: Do's and Don’ts for Contributors

#opensource #community #programming #beginners

3 min read

Anchal Makhijani

Jul 13 '24

Getting Started with WordPress: A Step-by-Step Guide to Local Installation

#webdev #learning #opensource

2 min read

Chiemezuo

Jul 1 '24

GSoC Week 5

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail #opensource

5 min read

jxtro

Jul 1 '24

Kubernetes vs Philippine Power Outages - On setting up k0s over Tailscale

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #docker

9 min read

Jul 1 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 2.3

#javascript #opensource #shadcnui #nextjs

4 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Jul 1 '24

AIM Weekly for 01-July-2024

#milvus #vectordatabase #opensource #unstructureddata

6 min read

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