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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 27

Contact Forms Were Overkill, So I Built a Simple Floating Contact Button

#webdev #wordpress #opensource

4 min read

Jan 27

Why PostgreSQL RLS Is Hard in Spring Boot and How I Simplified It

#postgres #springboot #opensource #jpa

2 min read

sanif

Jan 27

Ruby Deserves Better Documentation Tools

#ruby #opensource #documentation #rails

2 min read

Jan 27

Shadcn Space Creating extraordinary UI in a world full of components, blocks, and templates

#webdev #shadcn #opensource #webcomponents

5 min read

Jan 27

The File That Sits Between package.json and README.md

#programming #opensource #ai #tooling

4 min read

Jan 26

I got tired of my web app silently breaking after every deploy, so I built an open source QA platform

#webdev #opensource #testing #javascript

4 min read

S Vishal Maadhavan

Jan 31

Join our Open-Source Marathon – Beginner Friendly & Real Projects 🚀

#opensource #hackathon #beginners #community

1 min read

Takuya Morimoto

Feb 19

Your Link-in-Bio Is Lying — Why Verified Links Are the Next Standard

#webdev #security #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Aureus

Jan 26

Why Documentation Should Be Worth More Than Code

#opensource #documentation #programming #devops

3 min read

Aureus

Jan 26

Day-Aware Governance: Why Your Decision Systems Should Know What Day It Is

#governance #python #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Juan Denis

Feb 6

The Armored AI Agent You Can Actually Trust

#ai #opensource #python #security

3 min read

Feb 18

The First Operating System for AI Agents

#ai #python #opensource #agents

10 min read

Jan 27

Contributing to Ubuntu — Day xyz: When I found the real open source

#devjournal #opensource

3 min read

Feb 9

Creating an app using Codex and Eyevinn's Open Source Cloud

#ai #webdev #opensource #database

2 min read

Douglas MacKrell

Jan 31

Fixing SpotDL OAuth INVALID_CLIENT and 24 Hour Rate Limit Errors (Redirect URI Port Bug)

#spotify #opensource #cli #python

3 min read

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