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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 18

I made "TypeScript Swagger Editor", new type of Swagger UI writing TypeScript code in the browser

#swagger #typescript #opensource #openapi

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Rudransh Bhardwaj

Feb 18

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#webdev #opensource #frontend #css

1 min read

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The Open Source Advantage: How Rocket.Chat Transforms Team Communication

#opensource #productivity

3 min read

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#nextjs #programming #opensource #beginners

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#opensource #productivity

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Baserow

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#hackathon #backend #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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#webdev #tutorial #devops #opensource

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Victor Isaac Oshimua

Feb 16

Why You Shouldn't Contribute To Open Source

#discuss #opensource #programming #career

2 min read

Henrique Cavarsan

Feb 16

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#opensource #kubernetes #devops #cloud

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#webdev #astro #opensource #javascript

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Feb 16

Empowering Your Tech Journey: Building Confidence Through Open Source

#webdev #opensource #productivity #javascript

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keploy

Feb 16

Automated End to End tests using Property Based Testing | Part I

#opensource #testing #database #go

5 min read

Feb 16

GitHub: The Hub of Collaboration

#github #git #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Feb 18

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#opensource #webdev #programming #react

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CKMo

Feb 16

Secure Browser Access to code-server VSCode

#tutorial #devops #opensource #security

4 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Feb 17

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#beginners #opensource #openai

4 min read

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Feb 12

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#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

5 min read

Feb 17

Exploring OAuth 2.0: Enabling Google Authentication in a Pure Browser-Based Web App running on Cloudflare

#javascript #opensource #cloudflare #webapp

3 min read

Dennis Zimmermann

Feb 16

How to replace Environment Variables in a .npmrc File

#webdev #npm #opensource #npmrc

2 min read

Michael M.

Feb 16

Exploring Alternatives: Are There Better Options Than JSON?

#webdev #protobuf #messagepack #opensource

4 min read

Eden AI

Feb 16

Build a customizable LLM Chatbot in Unity

#ai #api #opensource

7 min read

Feb 11

Release 0.36.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - another maintenance release

#release #opensource #githubaction

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Feb 15

Load assembly at runtime with .Net 6*

#webapi #dotnetcore #opensource #assembly

2 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Feb 14

Introducing secret variables in Hoppscotch Environments

#news #api