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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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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Mar 20

17 Libraries You Should Know if You Build with React

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

23 min read

Mar 20

Lessons from open-source: Algorithm behind `“next buuild” does not exist. Did you mean “next build”?`

#javascript #node #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Mar 20

Reducing Bundle size of a Frontend application by optimizing Lodash imports

#webdev #javascript #opensource #lodash

1 min read

Mar 20

Como fiz o Infinite Craft ser multiplayer com algumas linhas de código

#gamedev #braziliandevs #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Marine for Taipy

Mar 20

Python for AI : Cheatlist

#programming #python #ai #opensource

5 min read

Harshal Ranjhani for CodeParrot

Mar 20

Shadcn: Customizable and Open Source UI

#webdev #ui #shadcn #opensource

3 min read

Mar 19

Monthiversary Celebration

#bestfriend #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Om singh

Mar 19

Open Source Ascendant: The Transformation of Software Development in 2024

#opensource #web #webdev #developer

2 min read

Pizofreude

Mar 19

Debugging "Resource not accessible by integration" Error in GitHub Actions

#github #githubactions #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Grzegorz Piechnik

Mar 20

I created my first startup to promote YOUR startup

#discuss #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Karthik Baleneni

Mar 20

What is VSCodium ? Better than VS code ?

#javascript #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Vedant Khairnar

Mar 20

How to hire Developers for your Open Source Project?

#hiring #hyperswitch #opensource #programming

4 min read

Mar 16

Navigating your way as an outreachy internship applicant

#opensource #writing #fedora #productivity

2 min read

Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

Mar 15

What is Hyperswitch

#discuss #payments #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 19

Lessons from open-source: How to create an array containing 0..N using Array.from?

#javascript #node #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Montegasppα Cacilhας

Mar 19

It’s FOSS

#opensource #newsletter #freelance

1 min read

FlameFace for Unburn

Mar 18

Welcome Discord Users Awesomely!

#discord #unburn #opensource #greetify

1 min read

Nik L. for SuprSend

Mar 18

How Redis Addressed Our Dynamic Task Scheduling and Concurrent Execution Issues w Celery & Postgres

#watercooler #opensource

4 min read

Oluwatosin Obatoyinbo

Mar 18

DON'T RUN BLIND, CHECK UNDER THE HOOD

#observability #opensource #elasticsearch #kubernetes

3 min read

Jordan Tyler Burchett

Mar 18

I trashed a software website just to reboot it 5 years later!

#news #webdev #opensource #learning

3 min read

Jane

Mar 15

Let's go opensource

#opensource #community #transparency

2 min read

Mar 18

FOSS Backstage Design Meets XR: Recap

#opensource #design #xr #conference

4 min read