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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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Green GitHub: To Have or Not to Have?

#discuss #github #opensource #career

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Dec 20 '23

Introducing Flask-Muck: How To Build a Comprehensive Flask REST API in 5 Minutes

#python #flask #tutorial #opensource

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Christine Belzie

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3 Important Lessons I Learned From My First Paid Tech Writing Gig

#beginners #opensource #writing #devjournal

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Chloe Williams for Zilliz

Dec 20 '23

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#opensource #ai #vectordatabase #devimpact2023

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Dec 20 '23

The "Censorship Brush" - GIMP enabled Invoice Redaction

#tutorial #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Dec 20 '23

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#webdev #javascript #opensource #node

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uliyahoo for CopilotKit

Dec 4 '23

✨ 7 AI Libraries EVERY Dev Needs to Know (to be a wiz)🧙‍♂️ 🪄

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Abdurrahman Rajab for OpenSauced

Dec 19 '23

How to implement emojis in Vercel/satori

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Dec 20 '23

🔥 The Single Best Tip To Attract More Contributors To Your GitHub Project💡

#opensource #github #programming #webdev

4 min read

Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

Dec 19 '23

Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey

#rust #opensource #coding #payments

4 min read

Sarvar Nadaf for AWS Community Builders

Dec 19 '23

🚀 DevSecOps ⚙️: "A Deep Dive into Scanning External Docker Images with Aqua Trivy in Amazon CodePipeline" 💭

#docker #devops #opensource #security

6 min read

Yuri for Supabase

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Supabase Studio: AI Assistant and User Impersonation

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

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tanya rai

Dec 19 '23

Master Prompt Engineering with OpenAI 🧠

#news #opensource #ai #devops

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Utpal Nadiger for Digger

Dec 15 '23

5 Open Source tools written in Golang that you should know about

#go #opensource #devops #backend

3 min read

Akshay

Dec 19 '23

ERROR : "System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate."

#devops #community #opensource #learning

2 min read

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