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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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Heather Stevens for Bitovi

Mar 13 '24

Introducing Hatchify: Low-code libraries for React, Node, and Sequelize

#opensource #typescript #sql #node

4 min read

Seal

Mar 14 '24

How to Deploy MySQL across Multiple Infrastructures easily with Walrus

#tutorial #opensource #devops #aws

6 min read

Sébastien Conejo

Mar 13 '24

How do frontend developers see the backend?

#discuss #backend #frontend #opensource

3 min read

Mar 13 '24

Lessons from open-source: What is OpenTelemetry

#javascript #react #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

Mar 13 '24

Hyperswitch by Juspay

#hyperswitch #rust #payments #opensource

1 min read

Ivan Burazin for Daytona

Mar 12 '24

How to Write A 4000 Stars GitHub README for Your Project

#howto #guide #opensource #readme

6 min read

NocoBase

Mar 13 '24

Open-Source No-Code/Low-Code Platform NocoBase v0.20: Supporting Multiple Data Sources

#lowcode #nocode #opensource #typescript

7 min read

Youssef

Feb 21 '24

Reasons why we created craftit.site

#discuss #programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

Prabhu R

Mar 12 '24

Marp: A Markdown Presentation App That Simplifies Your Tech Talks

#presentation #markdown #opensource

3 min read

Pete Cheslock for AppMap

Mar 12 '24

Beyond Code Completion: Better Prompt Context to Supercharge Your AI Coding Workflow

#openai #machinelearning #opensource #ai

5 min read

Chiemezuo

Mar 12 '24

How to Test a Web Platform for Accessibility

#webdev #a11y #opensource #testing

7 min read

John Rush

Mar 11 '24

I'm sick of Vendor Lock 🤕

#opensource #selfhosted #cloud #future

1 min read

delv.

Mar 9 '24

You might want to replace cd command with Zoxide 🎉 — a smarter and trainable cd alternative 🗂️

#linux #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12 '24

npx lassiecoder – in your terminal?

#npxcard #javascript #terminal #opensource

1 min read

Mursal Furqan Kumbhar

Mar 10 '24

8 Free Websites that feel illegal to know..!

#beginners #productivity #ai #opensource

2 min read

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