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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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Feb 28 '24

OpenCommit: feature-rich CLI to generate meaningful git commit messages now supports local models via Ollama 🤯🔫

#productivity #opensource #git #ai

2 min read

Dmitriy A. for Globalping

Mar 6 '24

How to get TLS from any location using Globalping

#opensource #linux #networking

7 min read

Royal Jain for CodeParrot

Mar 6 '24

Firebase vs Supabase

#firebase #supabase #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure

Mar 1 '24

Prompt Engineering Fundamentals - Generative AI For Beginners (v1)

#opensource #ai #beginners #thisweekinai

4 min read

Mar 6 '24

Understanding the Importance of AWS for Web Developers and How to Start Learning About AWS

#aws #webdev #cloud #opensource

4 min read

Mar 6 '24

How to Remove Duplicate Contacts from CSV File on Mac & Windows

#tutorial #opensource #computerscience #software

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Mar 1 '24

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 66)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Gabriel Grubba for Meteor

Mar 4 '24

Meteor v3 uses express under the hood – How to use and deploy it.

#javascript #meteor #opensource #express

4 min read

Jitendra Choudhary

Mar 5 '24

How to Understand a Large Codebase Like a Pro

#beginners #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Feb 27 '24

Just Git like a pro

#git #github #opensource #programming

6 min read

Mar 5 '24

Introducing EmailBuilder.js - a free and open source block-based email template builder

#opensource #nocode #typescript #webdev

2 min read

sjdonado

Mar 5 '24

HTMX with Bun: A Real World App

#htmx #bunjs #tailwindcss #opensource

5 min read

Tolulope Ajewole

Mar 5 '24

Crafting catchy headers for hero sections is like putting up a welcoming sign at the entrance of a store.

#productivity #opensource #development #web

1 min read

Swapnoneel Saha

Mar 5 '24

My First year in Tech

#webdev #beginners #productivity #opensource

9 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 4 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #191

#opensource #aws

14 min read

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